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countersense
語源
counter- + sense; adaptation of French contresens
名詞
countersense (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 countersenses)
- An opposite meaning.
- c. 1645, James Howell, “XIX. To the R.H. the Earl of Clare.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume IV, 3rd edition, London: Printed for Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, OCLC 84295516, page 462:
- Moreover, I find there are ſome Words now in French which are turn'd to a counterſenſe, as we uſe the Dutch Word Crank in Engliſh to be well-diſpos'd, which in the Original ſignifieth to be ſick; ſo in French, Cocu is taken for one whoſe Wife is light, and hath made him a paſſive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckoo, doth uſe to lay her Eggs in another Birds Neſt.
- A nonsensical idea; a contradiction in terms; something that contradicts an established principle, architectural or musical style, etc.
- 1899, William Archer, “What Can Be Done for the Drama?”, in The Anglo-Saxon Review, volume IV, page 232:
- A state theatre, where it exists in a democratic country, is always a legacy from an autocratic past. If it be a worthy and well-managed theatre, to which popular sentiment is habituated, it is no doubt a highly desirable legacy. But for a democracy, and especially an Anglo-Saxon democracy, to set about creating such a theatre would be, I think, a countersense.
- c. 1900, Lura F. Heckenlively, The Fundamentals of Gregorian Chant, page 247:
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