| 单词 |
scandalizing |
| 释义 |
▪ I. scandalizing, vbl. n.|ˈskændəlaɪzɪŋ|
[f. scandalize v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb scandalize in various senses.
1575Gascoigne Posies Ep. to Rev. Divines ⁋⁋j, [They] haue presumed to thinke that the same was indeed written to the scandalizing of some worthie personages. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. ii. ix. 39 They are rather to be thought obstinate in scandalizing, who..take not away the occasion of the scandall. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxiii. 237 It was thought fit that the Scandalizing of such a Person should not be passed over without publick Satisfaction. 1816W. Duncan Sel. Orat. Cicero x. 311 Scandalising has nothing in view but contumely.
▪ II. scandalizing, ppl. a.|ˈskændəlaɪzɪŋ|
[f. scandalize v.1 + -ing2.]
That scandalizes.
1. Causing offence.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. xii. §2 Good things haue no scandalizing nature in them. 1661W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. iii. Ep. Ded., Neither have you in this scandalizing Age laid a stone of offence before others, but admirably vindicated the honour of Religion.
2. Uttering malicious and false reports.
1646‘Alethegraphus’ Let. to G. Wither 1 Being stigmatized, at least with the name of lying and Scandalizing Bard. 1847Mischief of the Muses 45, I bear the jokes Of cruel scandalizing folks. 1876Clark Russell Is he the Man? II. 226, I would..wash my hands of this unjust scandalizing neighbourhood. |
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