blenchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English blenchen, from 古期英語 blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).^[1]. Doublet of blink, blank, blanch, bleach, and bleak.

動詞

blench (三人称単数 現在形 blenches, 現在分詞 blenching, 過去形および過去分詞形 blenched)

1. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
   • a. 1870, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field

     Blench not at thy chosen lot.

   • 1820, Francis Jeffrey, "Life of Curran", in The Edinburgh Review May 1820

     This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment.

   • 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), Jorge Louis Borges, "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255

     "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:

     Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings. […] Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings […]

2. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
3. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
4. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
   • 2012, Jan 13, Polly Toynbee, "Welfare cuts: Cameron's problem is that people are nicer than he thinks", The Guardian

     Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench.

5. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
6. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

名詞

blench (複数形 blenches)

1. A deceit; a trick.
   • c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.

     Feir weder turnedh ofte into reine; / An wunderliche hit makedh his blench.

2. A sidelong glance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 110”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     These blenches gave my heart another youth.

派生した語

• blanch (avoid)

語源 2

From Old French blanchir (“to bleach”).

動詞

blench (三人称単数 現在形 blenches, 現在分詞 blenching, 過去形および過去分詞形 blenched)

1. (obsolete) To blanch.
   • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Harper Perennial (2005), p.283

     The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.

関連する語

• blench holding
• unblenching

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