2023年5月16日 星期二

adulterer, cut loose, cuckold, a greater injury in lying

/ Michel de Montaigne /
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that "I am myself the matter of my book" was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time."


Saul Bellow was born a hundred years ago today. He was a serial adulterer, a negligent father and a surprisingly lacklustre public speaker.

Corporate boards have always been one of the weakest parts of the capitalist system—collections of cuckolds, in Ralph Nader’s phrase. Messrs Bainbridge and Henderson have come up with an intriguing idea for keeping companies from straying.



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cut loose


1Distance or free oneself from a person, group, or system:he was a young teenager, already cutting loose from his family
1.1Begin to act without restraint:when Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out
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老師不教的英文:戴綠帽cuckold
A cuckold is a man who has been betrayed by his wife. If your wife cuckolds you, she is cheating on you with a different man.


cuckold

Line breaks: cuck|old
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌk(ə)ld /

NOUN

DATED
The husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision:jokes in literature about elderly cuckolds and misers are rife

VERB

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1(Of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife:in the novel Humberto cuckolds his employer
1.1(Of a man’s wife) make (her husband) a cuckold:he was repeatedly cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite

Origin

late Old English, from Old French cucuault, from cucu'cuckoo' (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest). The equivalent words in French and other languages applied to both the bird and the adulterer; cuckold has never been applied to the bird in English.

Derivatives


cuckoldry

NOUN


Line breaks: adul|ter¦er
Pronunciation: /əˈdʌlt(ə)rə/ 

noun

A person who commits adultery.

Origin

Early 16th century: from the obsolete verb adulter'commit adultery', from Latin adulterare 'debauch, corrupt', replacing an earlier Middle English nounavouterer, from Old French avoutrer 'commit adultery'.


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