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dismayful

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/10/28 21:14 UTC 版)

形容詞

dismayful (comparative more dismayful, superlative most dismayful)

1. (obsolete) Terrifying
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:frightening
2. (obsolete) Dismaying; disheartening.
   • 1862, S. N., “Martin Luther-The Reformation”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, volume 2, page 8:
     Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the solemnized civilization of the past, the light, fragrance, and magic of genius, and the hope of a time coming to him, too, when the world shall listen to his voice, and he may win admiration, or draw tears, by the out-throwing of his thoughts—Luther invigorated his spirit by his student toils, enriched his mind by the noble sayings, and graphic images, of orator and poet, and fed his ambition for the attainment of the marvellous faculty of power, which literary culture gives, by training his unworn and tender youth—"To scorn delights, and live laborious days;"
3. (obsolete) Dismayed; full of disappointment or low spirits.
   • 1850, William Scoresby (the Younger), Jehovah glorified in His Works., page 20:
     and then to realise, at the last solemn account, an utter, hopeless, dismayful disappointment, and to find, that of his vast benefactions, by intellectual mastery, to the world, he has himself saved nothing; that whilst gaining the admiration of the whole world, he has lost his own soul!

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