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besetting
名詞
besetting (複数形 besettings)
- The act of one who besets or attacks.
- 1689, John Bunyan, The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners:
形容詞
besetting (comparative more besetting, superlative most besetting)
- Deeply rooted; persistent.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:
- The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico-academic-scientific type, the officially かつ conventionally “correct” type, “the deadly respectable” type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of taking part in anything like them ourselves.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XIII [Uniform ed., p. 144]:
- 1942, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, Chapter 8:
- I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:
- Obsessive
- 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 906152507:
- Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.
「besetting」は動詞「beset」の現在分詞です
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