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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈbɪtə/
• (General American) IPA: /əmˈbɪtəɹ/, [-ɾəɹ]
• 韻: -ɪtə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: im‧bit‧ter

動詞

imbitter (third-person singular simple present imbitters, present participle imbittering, simple past and past participle imbittered)

1. Obsolete spelling of embitter. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1608, John Dod, Robert Cleaver, “Vers[e] 10. Through mere pride doth man make contentions; but with the well aduised is wisedome.”, in A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon, London: […] R. B[radock] for Roger Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 26:

     Sometimes it [pride] ſtirreth vp men, and imboldeneth them to offer vvrongs: ſometimes imbittereth men; and maketh them vvayvvard againſt the right: […]

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Herald”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 2, page 142:

     He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.

   • 1713 April 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “Wednesday, April 1. 1713.”, in The Guardian, number 18, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […]; and sold by A. Baldwin […], →OCLC, page [1], column 1:

     The Proſpect of Death is ſo gloomy and diſmal, that if it vvere conſtantly before our Eyes, it vvould imbitter all the Svveets of Life.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter II, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     The superstition of the people was not imbittered by any mixture of theological rancor; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system.

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, pages 54–55:

     [T]hat monſtrous fiction, vvhich, by inſpiring falſe ideas and vain expectations into men deſtined to travel in the obſcure vvalk of laborious life, ſerves only to aggravate and imbitter that real inequality, vvhich it never can remove; […]

   • 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 107:

     It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.

   • 1889, Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Volume Four‎:

     Naturally the Tennesseeans, conscious that they had not wronged the Indians, and had scrupulously observed the treaty, grew imbittered over, the wanton Indian outrages.

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