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fray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?, IPA(key): /f?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English fraien, borrowed from Old French frayer, from Latin fric?re, present active infinitive of fric?.
Verb
fray (third-person singular simple present frays, present participle fraying, simple past and past participle frayed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
- (Metaphorical use; nerves are visualised as strings)
- (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm
- And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 63:
- "Besides, all the wit and Philosophy in the world can never demonstrate, that the killing and slaughtering of a Beast is anymore then the striking of a Bush where a Bird's Nest is, where you fray away the Bird, and then seize upon the empty Nest."
- 1830, Isaac Taylor, The Natural History of Enthusiasm
- the many checks and reverses which belong to the common course of human life , usually fray it away from present scenes
- (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
- 1631, Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
- (intransitive) To rub.
- 1808, Walter Scott, Hunting Song
Related terms
- friction
- fricative
- affricate
- dentifrice
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English frai, aphetic variant of affray.
Noun
fray (plural frays)
- A fight or argument
- (archaic) Fright.
Related terms
- affray
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
Apocope of fraile (“friar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ai/, [?f?ai?]
Noun
fray m (plural frayes)
- friar
Abbreviations
- fr.
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dissension
English
Etymology
From Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s?n??n/
- Hyphenation: dis?sen?sion
Noun
dissension (countable and uncountable, plural dissensions)
- An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
- Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
- 1843, E. A. Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon
- The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, of the supporters of each region.
- 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, p. 34f.
- In Biblical times the resort to chance was an agreed-upon way of making many decisions because it ended dissension among opposing, often powerful, parties.
- 1843, E. A. Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin dissensio.
Noun
dissension f (plural dissensions)
- dissension
Further reading
- “dissension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dessinions
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