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anguish
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?ng?-gw?sh, IPA(key): /?æ?.?w??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
Noun
anguish (countable and uncountable, plural anguishes)
- Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
- So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
- 1595/96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Act V, sc. 1:
- Is there no play,
- To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Book I, LIII:
- Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint,
- Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night
- In secret anguish and unpittied plaint,
- Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 6:9:
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern, "Cinyras and Myrrha":
- There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid,
- In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder, A Poem in Two Books, Book I:
- May I the sacred pleasures know
- Of strictest amity, nor ever want
- A friend with whom I mutually may share
- Gladness and anguish ...
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 18:
- She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, The Leaves of Grass, "Old War-Dreams":
- In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
- Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable
- look,)
- Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,
- I dream, I dream, I dream.
- Synonyms: agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment; see also Thesaurus:agony
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).
Verb
anguish (third-person singular simple present anguishes, present participle anguishing, simple past and past participle anguished)
- (intransitive) To suffer pain.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
Translations
References
Further reading
- anguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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suspense
English
Alternative forms
- suspence (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin susp?nsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??sp?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Noun
suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)
- The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
- the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
- The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
Derived terms
- suspenseful
Translations
Adjective
suspense (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
- (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
French
Etymology 1
Nominalisation of the feminine form of suspens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.p??s/
Noun
suspense f (plural suspenses)
- suspense (state of being suspended)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English suspense, itself from Old French suspense. Doublet of suspens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.p?ns/
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense (emotion; feeling)
Further reading
- “suspense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From French suspense, from English suspense.
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense
- thriller
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English suspense.
Noun
suspense f (invariable)
- suspense (all senses)
Latin
Participle
susp?nse
- vocative masculine singular of susp?nsus
References
- suspense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- suspense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense (the excited anticipation of an outcome)
- (fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)
Spanish
Etymology
From French suspense, from English suspense.
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- (Spain) suspense
- Synonym: (Latin America) suspenso
- thriller
Derived terms
- novela de suspense (“thriller”) (novel genre)
- película de suspense (“thriller”) (film genre)
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