complacence
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自late 中古英語 complacence,源自中世紀拉丁語 complacentia,源自拉丁語 complaceō (「高興,滿足」)。
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名詞[編輯]
complacence (可數 和 不可數,複數 complacences)
- (古舊) 自滿,得意
- (棄用) 高興,愉快
- 1667, John Milton, 「Book III」, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- O thou, my sole complacence.
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- (棄用) 迎合,討好
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 卷s (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC:
- He told his sister, if she pleased, the new-born infant should be bred up together with little Tommy; to which she consented, though with some little reluctance: for she had truly a great complacence for her brother […]
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