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形容詞

iracund (comparative more iracund, superlative most iracund)

1. (rare) Angry; irritable

   Synonyms: irascible, choleric

   • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, published 1870, page 80:

     Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially.

   • 1863, Robert Montgomery Bird, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, volume 1, page 93:

     And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad thrown the red-men into such a ferment.

   • 2011, Vivien Kelly, Two Red Shoes, unnumbered page:

     She thought the man in the ticket booth looked charmingly rotund and friendly (in reality he was a lazy, iracund man), the light rain flowed down drainpipes and dripped off the roof like the water of a baptism, where all, and not just the baby, were blessed by God.

2. (rare) Characterized by anger; caused by anger; wrathful
   • 1965, Robert J. Clements, Dante After Seven Centuries, published 1967:

     Nor does he [Dante] extract any other example of iracund murder or harm from the hundreds of cases available to him from Ajax, Achilles—nay, from Cain—down to his time.

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “iracund”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “iracund”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

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