| 单词 |
noncurantist |
| 释义 |
noncuˈrantist, a.
[f. It. noncurante not caring, careless + -ist.]
Marked by indifference. Also noncurance, indifference; noncurant a., indifferent.
1882W. S. Blunt Future of Islam 42 The faith of Mecca..was giving place to a noncurantist infidelity. 1904F. Rolfe Hadrian the Seventh iii. 84 He began to undress..with the noncurance of one accustomed to swim in Sandford Lasher. a1913― Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) viii. 78 The most elegant young stranger.., exquisitely noncurant in carriage. a1913― Nicholas Crabbe (1958) iii. 28 In the matter of money, he was extravagant, chimerical, quixotic, noncurant, to a degree. Ibid. xxiii. 158 Some unknown boy, noncurant, saucy, shrilly whistling. 1928Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July 510/4 He contrasts the Italian measures against manifestations in favour of Enosis (union with Greece) with the completely noncurantist tolerance of them by the British authorities in Cyprus. 1931Ibid. 5 Nov. 870/3 Some of the [Masonic] symbols and ceremonies discarded in the days of uninquiring ignorance and self-satisfied noncurance. |
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