unhingingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unhinging

1. present participle and gerund of unhinge

形容詞

unhinging (comparative more unhinging, superlative most unhinging)

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   • 1920, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The House of the Dead:

     Events, as ill-luck would have it, confirmed my observations from the first and had a morbid and unhinging influence on me. That first summer I wandered about the prison in almost complete loneliness, without a friend. As I have mentioned already, I was in such a state of mind that I could not even distinguish and appreciate those of the prisoners who were later on able to grow fond of me, though they never treated me as an equal. I had comrades too of my own class, but their comradeship did not ease my heart of its oppression. I hated the sight of everything and I had no means of escape from it. And here, for instance, is one of the incidents which from the beginning made me understand how completely I was an outsider, and how peculiar my position was in the prison.

派生語

• unhingingly

名詞

unhinging (plural unhingings)

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   • 1933, H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum:

     So hideous a thing had no right to exist—probably the mere contemplation of it, after it was done, had completed the unhinging of its maker's mind and led him to worship it with brutal sacrifices.