SECTIONIII. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS#888. Friendship.—N. friendship, amity; friendliness &c. adj.;
brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony &c. (concord)
714; peace &c. 721.
firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar
friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted
friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm
friendship, ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale[Fr], good understanding,
rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.
affection &c. (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c. (benevolence) 906.
acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship,
knowledge of; introduction.
V. be friendly &c. adj., be friends &c. 890, be acquainted with &c.
adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c.(sociality) 892; hold
communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to;
bear good will &c. (benevolent) 906; love &c. 897; make much of; befriend
&c. (aid) 707; introduce to. set one's horses together; have the
latchstring out [U. S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the
right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become
friendly &c. adj.; make friends &c. 890 with; break the lee, be introduced
to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance
with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw
oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part.
Adj. friendly; amicable, amical[obs3]; well-affected, unhostile[obs3],
neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial,
warm-hearted.
friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good
terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on
familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on
visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.
acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow
well met, free and easy; welcome.
Adv. amicably &c. adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in
arm.
Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat][Seneca]; "a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]; "friendship is love without
either flowers or veil" [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat
[Lat][Ovid].#889. Enmity.—N. enmity, hostility; unfriendliness &c. adj.; discord&c. 713; bitterness, rancor.alienation, estrangement; dislike &c. 867; hate &c. 898.heartburning[obs3]; animosity &c. 900; malevolence &c. 907.V. be inimical &c. adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length;be at loggerheads; bear malice &c. 907; fall out; take umbrage &c. 900;harden the heart, alienate, estrange.[not friendly, but not hostile see indifference 866].Adj. inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggersdrawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted;estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.#890. Friend.—N. friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best
friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus[Lat]; usque ad
aras[Lat]; fidus Achates[Lat][obs3]; persona grata.
acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance,
nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.
favorer, fautor[obs3], patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius,
advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need &c. (auxiliary) 711.
comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade[obs3],
confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy;
playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.
associate, colleague, compeer.
schoolmate, schoolfellow[obs3]; classfellow[obs3], classman[obs3],
classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.
best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.
compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman.
shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate[obs3]; fellow companion,
boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior
partner.
Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux[obs3], Nisus and
Euryalus[Lat], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum[Lat].
host, Amphitryon[obs3], Boniface; guest, visitor, protg.
Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis[Lat]; ohne bruder kann man leben
nicht ohne Freund[Ger]; "best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness"
[G. Eliot]; conocidos muchos amigos pocos[Sp]; "friend more divine than
all divinities" [G. Eliot]; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo[Sp].#891. Enemy.—N. enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman[obs3]; open enemy,
bitter enemy; opponent &c. 710; back friend.
public enemy, enemy to society.
Phr. every hand being against one; "he makes no friend who never made
a foe" [Tennyson].
with friends like that, who needs enemies?; Lord protect me from my
friends; I can protect myself from my enemies.#892. Sociality.—N. sociality, sociability, sociableness &c. adj.;
social intercourse; consociation[obs3]; intercourse, intercommunity[obs3];
consortship[obs3], companionship, comradeship; clubbism[obs3]; esprit de
corps.
conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity,
savoir vivre[Fr], festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup|!;
hospitality, heartiness; cheer.
welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm
reception; urbanity &c. (courtesy) 894; familiarity.
good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant[Fr], bawcock[obs3].
social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie,
society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly &c.
(assemblage) 72; barbecue [U. S.], bee; corn-husking [U. S.], corn-shucking
[U. S.]; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee [U. S.];
infare[obs3].
party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione[It],
soiree, matine; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge
party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie
carre[Fr], dish of tea, ridotto[obs3], rout|!; housewarming; ball,
festival &c; smoker, smoker-party;sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party,
tamasha|!; tea-party, tea-fight*. (amusement) 840; "the feast of reason
and the flow of soul" [Pope].
birthday party[parties for specific occasions], Christmas party, New
Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai[Japan]; wedding
reception.
visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview &c.
(conversation) 588; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.
club &c. (association) 712.
V. be sociable &c. adj.; know; be acquainted &c. adj.; associate with,
sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same
trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance
with &c. (friendship) 888; make advances, fraternize, embrace.
be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make
free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters;
find the latchstring out [U.S.]. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits,
interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in;
look one up, beat up one's quarters.
entertain; give a party &c. n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang
out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms;
welcome; give a warm reception &c. n. to kill the fatted calf.
Adj. sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable[obs3], cosy,
cosey[obs3], chatty,, conversational; homiletical.
convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.
welcome, welcome as the roses in May; fted, entertained.
free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms,
acquainted.
social, neighborly; international; gregarious.
Adv. en famille[Fr], in the family circle; sans fa
on, sans
ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm.
Phr. "a crowd is not company" [Bacon]; "be bright and jovial among
your guests tonight" [Macbeth]; "his worth is warrant for his welcome"
[Two Gentlemen]; "let's be red with mirth" [Winter's Tale]; "welcome the
coming speed the parting guest" [Pope].#893. Seclusion. Exclusion.—N. seclusion, privacy; retirement;
reclusion, recess; snugness &c. adj.; delitescence[obs3]; rustication, rus
in urbe[Lat]; solitude; solitariness &c. (singleness) 87; isolation;
loneliness &c. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile;
aloofness.
cell, hermitage; convent &c. 1000; sanctum sanctorum[Lat].
depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c. (unproductive)
169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism,
proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
inhospitality[obs3], inhospitableness &c. adj.; dissociability[obs3];
domesticity, Darby and Joan.
recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; Simon
Stylites[obs3]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs3], Santon[obs3], solitaire,
ruralist[obs3], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast,
Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs3]; wastrel, foundling, wilding[obs3].
V. be secluded, live secluded &c. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold
oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug;
shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate, aller planter ses choux[Fr]; retire, retire from the world; take
the veil; abandon &c. 624; sport one's oak*.
cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look
cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball,
excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon,
ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length,
draw a cordon round.
depopulate; dispeople[obs3], unpeople[obs3].
Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs3], private, bye;
out of the world, out of the way; "the world forgetting by the world
forgot" [Pope].
snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
unsociable; unsocial, dissocial[obs3]; inhospitable, cynical,
inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage[Fr], troglodytic.
solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.
estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless;
abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended[obs3];
kithless[obs3], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs3], forlorn, desolate.
unvisited, unintroduced[obs3], uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud,
left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.
banished &c. v.
Phr. noli me tangere[Lat].
"among them but not of them" [Byron]; "and homeless near a thousand
homes I stood" [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
[Gray]; "makes a solitude and calls it peace" [Byron]; magna civitas
magna solitudo [Lat]; "never less alone than when alone" [Rogers]; "O
sacred solitude! divine retreat!" [Young].#894. Courtesy.—N. courtesy; respect &c. 928; good manners, good
behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness &c. adj.; bienseance,
urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility,
civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy
temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension &c. (humility)
879; affability, complaisance, prvenance, amability[obs3], gallantry; pink
of politeness, pink of courtesy.
compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases,
ceremonial; salutation, reception, presentation, introduction,
accueil[obs3], greeting, recognition; welcome, abord|, respects, devoir,
regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love,
duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
obeisance &c. (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam,
kotow[obs3], kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c.
(worship) 990; obsequiousness &c. 886; capping, shaking hands, &c. v.; grip
of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin
d'honneur[Fr], pledge; love token &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute.
mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles"
[Milton]; valediction &c. 293; condolence &c. 915.
V. be courteous &c. adj.; show courtesy &c. n.
mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men,
conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the
amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's
manners.
receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome,
welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand,
squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest;
cheer, serenade.
salute; embrace &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to,
pledge, hob and nob[obs3]; move to, nod to; smile upon.
uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present
arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy,
courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.
visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c.
(sociability) 892; dance attendance on &c. (servility) 886; pay attentions
to; do homage to &c. (respect) 928.
prostrate oneself &c. (worship) 990.
give one's duty to, send one's duty to, &c. n.
render polite &c. adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.
Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-
mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized,
cultivated; refined &c. (taste) 850; gentlemanlike &c. (fashion) 852[obs3];
gallant; on one's good behavior.
fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued;
oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious
&c. 886.
ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious,
affable, familiar; neighborly.
diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c. 702.
Adv. courteously &c. adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with
outstretched arms; a bras ouverts[Fr]; suaviter in modo[Fr], in good
humor.
Int. hail! welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow!
Godspeed! pax vobiscum[Lat]! may your shadow never be less!
Phr. Tien de plus estimable que la ceremonie[Fr]; "the very pink of
courtesy" [Romeo and Juliet].#895. Discourtesy.—N. discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad
manners, ungainly manners; insuavity[obs3]; uncourteousness &c.adj[obs3].;
rusticity, inurbanity[obs3]; illiberality, incivility displacency[obs3].
disrespect &c. 929; procacity[obs3], impudence; barbarism, barbarity;
misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism[obs3], conduct unbecoming a
gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie[obs3]; vulgarity, &c. 851.
churlishness &c. adj.; spinosity[obs3], perversity; moroseness &c.
(sullenness) 901a. sternness &c. adj.; austerity; moodishness[obs3],
captiousness &c. 901; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity,
virulence, asperity.
scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words,
contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.
bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3]; frump,
crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. 887[obs3]; crooked stick; grizzly.
V. be -rude &c. adj.; insult &c. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a
name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of
countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.
cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder;
keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon,
look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.
lose one's temper &c. (resentment) 900; sulk &c. 90la; frown, scowl,
glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.
render rude &c. ad.; brutalize, brutify[obs3].
Adj. discourteous, uncourteous[obs3]; uncourtly[obs3]; ill-bred, ill-
mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered;
impolite, unpolite[obs3]; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-
like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c. 851;
dedecorous[obs3]; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.
uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive,
impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.
repulsive; uncomplaisant[obs3], unaccommodating, unneighborly,
ungallant; inaffable[obs3]; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff,
blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh,
austere; cavalier.
taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting,
doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious;
snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen &c. 901a;
peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless &c. 703;
Adv. discourteously &c. adj.; with discourtesy &c. n., with a bad
grace.#896. Congratulation.—N. congratulation, gratulation[obs3];felicitation; salute &c. 894; condolence &c. 915; compliments of theseason.V. congratulate, gratulate[obs3]; felicitate; give one joy, wish onejoy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations;wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy newyear.praise,laud (commendation) 931.congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) 838.Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory[obs3].Phr. "I wish you all the joy that you can wish" [Merchant ofVenice]; best wishes.#897. Love.—N. love; fondness &c. adj.; liking; inclination &c.
(desire) 865; regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy.
affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart,
brotherly love; benevolence &c. 906; attachment.
yearning,
#888. Friendship.—N. friendship, amity; friendliness &c. adj.; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony &c. (concord) 714; peace &c. 721. firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship. cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale[Fr], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness. affection &c. (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c. (benevolence) 906. acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction. V. be friendly &c. adj., be friends &c. 890, be acquainted with &c. adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c.(sociality) 892; hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will &c. (benevolent) 906; love &c. 897; make much of; befriend &c. (aid) 707; introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U. S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c. adj.; make friends &c. 890 with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of. shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part. Adj. friendly; amicable, amical[obs3]; well-affected, unhostile[obs3], neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted. friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books. acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome. Adv. amicably &c. adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm. Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat][Seneca]; "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]; "friendship is love without either flowers or veil" [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat][Ovid].
#889. Enmity.—N. enmity, hostility; unfriendliness &c. adj.; discord&c. 713; bitterness, rancor.alienation, estrangement; dislike &c. 867; hate &c. 898.heartburning[obs3]; animosity &c. 900; malevolence &c. 907.V. be inimical &c. adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length;be at loggerheads; bear malice &c. 907; fall out; take umbrage &c. 900;harden the heart, alienate, estrange.[not friendly, but not hostile see indifference 866].Adj. inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggersdrawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted;estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.
#890. Friend.—N. friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus[Lat]; usque ad aras[Lat]; fidus Achates[Lat][obs3]; persona grata. acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher. favorer, fautor[obs3], patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need &c. (auxiliary) 711. comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade[obs3], confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow. associate, colleague, compeer. schoolmate, schoolfellow[obs3]; classfellow[obs3], classman[obs3], classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion. best man, maid of honor, matron of honor. compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman. shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate[obs3]; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner. Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux[obs3], Nisus and Euryalus[Lat], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum[Lat]. host, Amphitryon[obs3], Boniface; guest, visitor, protg. Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis[Lat]; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund[Ger]; "best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness" [G. Eliot]; conocidos muchos amigos pocos[Sp]; "friend more divine than all divinities" [G. Eliot]; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo[Sp].
#891. Enemy.—N. enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman[obs3]; open enemy, bitter enemy; opponent &c. 710; back friend. public enemy, enemy to society. Phr. every hand being against one; "he makes no friend who never made a foe" [Tennyson]. with friends like that, who needs enemies?; Lord protect me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies.
#892. Sociality.—N. sociality, sociability, sociableness &c. adj.; social intercourse; consociation[obs3]; intercourse, intercommunity[obs3]; consortship[obs3], companionship, comradeship; clubbism[obs3]; esprit de corps. conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre[Fr], festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup|!; hospitality, heartiness; cheer. welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity &c. (courtesy) 894; familiarity. good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant[Fr], bawcock[obs3]. social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly &c. (assemblage) 72; barbecue [U. S.], bee; corn-husking [U. S.], corn-shucking [U. S.]; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee [U. S.]; infare[obs3]. party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione[It], soiree, matine; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carre[Fr], dish of tea, ridotto[obs3], rout|!; housewarming; ball, festival &c; smoker, smoker-party;sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha|!; tea-party, tea-fight*. (amusement) 840; "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]. birthday party[parties for specific occasions], Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai[Japan]; wedding reception. visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview &c. (conversation) 588; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment. club &c. (association) 712. V. be sociable &c. adj.; know; be acquainted &c. adj.; associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with &c. (friendship) 888; make advances, fraternize, embrace. be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U.S.]. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters. entertain; give a party &c. n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c. n. to kill the fatted calf. Adj. sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable[obs3], cosy, cosey[obs3], chatty,, conversational; homiletical. convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable. welcome, welcome as the roses in May; fted, entertained. free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted. social, neighborly; international; gregarious. Adv. en famille[Fr], in the family circle; sans fa on, sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm. Phr. "a crowd is not company" [Bacon]; "be bright and jovial among your guests tonight" [Macbeth]; "his worth is warrant for his welcome" [Two Gentlemen]; "let's be red with mirth" [Winter's Tale]; "welcome the coming speed the parting guest" [Pope].
#893. Seclusion. Exclusion.—N. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness &c. adj.; delitescence[obs3]; rustication, rus in urbe[Lat]; solitude; solitariness &c. (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness &c. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness. cell, hermitage; convent &c. 1000; sanctum sanctorum[Lat]. depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c. (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum. exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut. inhospitality[obs3], inhospitableness &c. adj.; dissociability[obs3]; domesticity, Darby and Joan. recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; Simon Stylites[obs3]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs3], Santon[obs3], solitaire, ruralist[obs3], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs3]; wastrel, foundling, wilding[obs3]. V. be secluded, live secluded &c. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux[Fr]; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon &c. 624; sport one's oak*. cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. depopulate; dispeople[obs3], unpeople[obs3]. Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs3], private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; "the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home. unsociable; unsocial, dissocial[obs3]; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage[Fr], troglodytic. solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single. estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended[obs3]; kithless[obs3], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs3], forlorn, desolate. unvisited, unintroduced[obs3], uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast. banished &c. v. Phr. noli me tangere[Lat]. "among them but not of them" [Byron]; "and homeless near a thousand homes I stood" [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; "makes a solitude and calls it peace" [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat]; "never less alone than when alone" [Rogers]; "O sacred solitude! divine retreat!" [Young].
#894. Courtesy.—N. courtesy; respect &c. 928; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness &c. adj.; bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension &c. (humility) 879; affability, complaisance, prvenance, amability[obs3], gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial; salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil[obs3], greeting, recognition; welcome, abord|, respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams. obeisance &c. (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow[obs3], kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c. (worship) 990; obsequiousness &c. 886; capping, shaking hands, &c. v.; grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur[Fr], pledge; love token &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute. mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]; valediction &c. 293; condolence &c. 915. V. be courteous &c. adj.; show courtesy &c. n. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners. receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade. salute; embrace &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob[obs3]; move to, nod to; smile upon. uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee. visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c. (sociability) 892; dance attendance on &c. (servility) 886; pay attentions to; do homage to &c. (respect) 928. prostrate oneself &c. (worship) 990. give one's duty to, send one's duty to, &c. n. render polite &c. adj.; polish, civilize, humanize. Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well- mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined &c. (taste) 850; gentlemanlike &c. (fashion) 852[obs3]; gallant; on one's good behavior. fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious &c. 886. ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly. diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c. 702. Adv. courteously &c. adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with outstretched arms; a bras ouverts[Fr]; suaviter in modo[Fr], in good humor. Int. hail! welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow! Godspeed! pax vobiscum[Lat]! may your shadow never be less! Phr. Tien de plus estimable que la ceremonie[Fr]; "the very pink of courtesy" [Romeo and Juliet].
#895. Discourtesy.—N. discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity[obs3]; uncourteousness &c.adj[obs3].; rusticity, inurbanity[obs3]; illiberality, incivility displacency[obs3]. disrespect &c. 929; procacity[obs3], impudence; barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism[obs3], conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie[obs3]; vulgarity, &c. 851. churlishness &c. adj.; spinosity[obs3], perversity; moroseness &c. (sullenness) 901a. sternness &c. adj.; austerity; moodishness[obs3], captiousness &c. 901; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality. bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3]; frump, crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. 887[obs3]; crooked stick; grizzly. V. be -rude &c. adj.; insult &c. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush. cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear. lose one's temper &c. (resentment) 900; sulk &c. 90la; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl. render rude &c. ad.; brutalize, brutify[obs3]. Adj. discourteous, uncourteous[obs3]; uncourtly[obs3]; ill-bred, ill- mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite[obs3]; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman- like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c. 851; dedecorous[obs3]; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive. uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. repulsive; uncomplaisant[obs3], unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable[obs3]; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier. taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen &c. 901a; peevish &c. (irascible) 901. untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless &c. 703; Adv. discourteously &c. adj.; with discourtesy &c. n., with a bad grace.
#896. Congratulation.—N. congratulation, gratulation[obs3];felicitation; salute &c. 894; condolence &c. 915; compliments of theseason.V. congratulate, gratulate[obs3]; felicitate; give one joy, wish onejoy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations;wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy newyear.praise,laud (commendation) 931.congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) 838.Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory[obs3].Phr. "I wish you all the joy that you can wish" [Merchant ofVenice]; best wishes.
#897. Love.—N. love; fondness &c. adj.; liking; inclination &c.
(desire) 865; regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy.
affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart,
brotherly love; benevolence &c. 906; attachment.
yearning,
#898. Hate.—N. hate, hatred, vials of hate. disaffection, disfavor; alienation, estrangement, coolness; enmity &c. 889; animosity &c. 900. umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice &c. 907; implacability &c. (revenge) 919. repugnance &c. (dislike) 867; misanthropy, demonophobia[obs3], gynephobia[obs3], negrophobia[obs3]; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, bete noire; enemy &c. 891; bitter pill; source of annoyance &c. 830. V. hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl &c. 895; disrelish &c. (dislike) 867. owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice &c. (malevolence) 907; conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to. excite hatred, provoke hatred &c. n.; be hateful &c. adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify &c. 830; roil. Adj. hating &c. v.; abhorrent; averse from &c. (disliking) 867; set against. bitter &c. (acrimonious) 895 implacable &c. (revengeful) 919. unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned[obs3], uncared for, unendeared[obs3], un-valued; disliked &c. 867. crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted. obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting &c. (disagreeable) 830; reprehensible. invidious, spiteful; malicious &c. 907. insulting, irritating, provoking. at daggers drawn[Mutual hate]; not on speaking terms &c. (enmity) 889; at loggerheads. Phr. no love lost between.
#899. Favorite.—N. favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel,spoiled child, enfant gat[Fr]; led captain; crony; fondling; apple ofone's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.love[person who is a favorite (terms of address)], dear, darling,duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey[obs3], moppet, princess;sweetheart, sweetie &c. (love) 897.teacher's pet.general favorite, universal favorite; idol of the people.
#900. Resentment.—N. resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation. pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart- swelling; rankling. ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility &c. 901; ill blood &c. (hate) 898; revenge &c. 919. excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement[Fr], angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence &c. 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. scowl &c. 895; sulks &c. 901a. [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity &c. (insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli[Lat]; ill turn, outrage. Furies, Eumenides. buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles. V. resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie[Fr]; breathe revenge, cut up rough. fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath. pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit. chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain. have a fling at; bear malice &c. (revenge) 919. cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite &c. 824; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e. 919; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw. put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears. bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. Adj. angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross &c. (irascible) 901; Achillean[obs3]; sulky, &c. 901a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c. (discourteous) &c. 895; violent &c. 173. warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage. offended &c. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against. fierce, wild, rageful[obs3], furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless &c. 919. flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon. Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment. Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up! zounds! 'sdeath! Phr. one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat][Vergil]; "beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Lat][Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]; "What, drunk with choler?" [Henry IV].
#901. Irascibility.—N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) 720. excitability &c. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile[Lat], hot blood. ill humor &c. (sullenness) 901a; asperity &c., churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895. huff &c. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow. Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler[obs3], Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c. (blusterer) 887; fury &c. (violent person) 173. V. be irascible &c. adj.; have a temper &c. n., have a devil in one; fire up &c. (be angry) 900. Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable &c. 825; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret. hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy[obs3], tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]. querulous, captious, moodish[obs3]; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious[obs3]; restiff &c. (perverse) 901a[obs3]; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895. cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acaritre[obs3]. in a bad temper; sulky &c. 901a; angry &c. 900. resentful, resentive[obs3]; vindictive &c. 919. Int. pish! Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes[Fr]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Lat][Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace].
#901a. Sullenness.—N. sullenness &c. adj.; morosity[obs3], spleen; churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c. 901. moodiness &c. adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c. 606; torvity|, spinosity[obs3]; crabbedness &c. adj. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps[obs3], dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie[Fr], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c. (resentment) 900. V. be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam[obs3], pout, have a hangdog look, glout[obs3]. Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed; grouty [obs3][U. S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy[obs3], torvous[obs3], crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly &c. (discourteous) 895. moody; spleenish[obs3], spleenly[obs3]; splenetic, cankered. cross, crossgrained[obs3]; perverse, wayward, humorsome[obs3]; restiff[obs3], restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious[obs3], sinistrous[obs3], deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U. S.]. dogged &c. (stubborn) 606. grumpy, glum, grim, grum[obs3], morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
#902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment.—N. endearment, caress; blandishment, blandiment|; panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing. embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation|; amorous glances. courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. flirting &c. v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry. true lover's knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine. honeymoon; Strephon and Chloe[obs3]. V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness. clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss; salute &c. (courtesy) 894; fold to the heart, press to the bosom. bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux[Fr]. fall in love with, win the affections &c. (love) 897; die for. propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question; plight one's troth, plight one's faith. Adj. caressing &c. v.; "sighing like furnace" [Shakespeare]; love- sick, spoony. caressed &c. V. Phr. "faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion" [G. Eliot].
#903. Marriage.—N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii[Lat], nuptial tie. married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation. match; betrothment &c. (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c. v.; nuptial benediction, epithalamium[obs3]; sealing. torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon. bridesmaid, bridesman[obs3], best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist[obs3], Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate[obs3]; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife. feme[Fr], feme coverte[Fr]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood[obs3]; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife. monogamy, bigamy, digamy[obs3], deuterogamy[obs3], trigamy[obs3], polygamy; mormonism; levirate[obs3]; spiritual wifery[obs3], spiritual wifeism[obs3]; polyandrism[obs3]; Turk, bluebeard[obs3]. unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance[Fr]. marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen[Ger]. V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched[U.S. slang], lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. marry, join, handfast[obs3]; couple &c. (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c. (promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church. Adj. married &c. v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile. engaged, betrothed, affianced. matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal. Phr. the gray mare the better horse; "a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; "render me worthy of this noble wife" [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat][Ovid].
#904. Celibacy.—N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness;bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.virginity, pucelage[obs3]; maidenhood, maidenhead.unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist[obs3], old bachelor;misogamist[obs3], misogynist; monogamist; monk.unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole[Fr], oldmaid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.V. live single, live alone.Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded[obs3]; wifeless, spouseless[obs3];single.
#905. Divorce.—N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicialseparation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro[Lat],separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat].trial separation, breakup; annulment.widowhood, viduity[obs3], weeds.widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grasswidower; merry widow.V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse[obs3], put away; wearthe horns.
#906. Benevolence.—N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c. 910; unselfishness &c. 942. good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c. adj.; loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow- feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind- heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love &c. 897; friendship &c. 888. toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy &c. (pity) 914. charitableness &c. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment. good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant[Fr]; altruist. V. be benevolent &c. adj.; have one's heart in the right place, bear good will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with, empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c. (be friendly) 888. enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway. treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit &c. (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c. 707. Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted; merciful &c. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured; spleenless[obs3]; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant &c. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal[obs3]; friendly &c. 888. Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions. Int. Godspeed! much good may it do! Phr. "act a charity sometimes" [Lamb]; "a tender heart, a will inflexible" [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat: say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead]; "kind words are more than coronets" [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana[Lat]; "the social smile, the sympathetic tear" [Gray].
#907. Malevolence.—N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness[obs3]; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense[obs3]; maliciousness &c. adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c. 900. uncharitableness &c. adj.; incompassionateness &c. 914a[obs3]; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity[obs3], acerbity churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895. hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c. adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity[obs3], ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection. ill turn, bad turn; affront &c. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [ironical]; "unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. V. be malevolent &c. adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot. hurt &c. (physical pain) 378; annoy &c. 830; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast. molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use. wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy &c. 914a. Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill- intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed[obs3]. malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling. harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious[obs3]; invidious; uncandid; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c. 901a. cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c. (unmerciful) 914a; relentless &c. (revengeful) 919. cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine[obs3], ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty &c. (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded[obs3]. fiendish, fiendlike[obs3]; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran. Adv. malevolently &c. adj.; with bad intent &c. n. Phr. cruel as death; "hard unkindness' alter'd eye" [Gray]; homo homini lupus [Lat][Plautus]; mala mens[Lat], malus animus [Lat][Terence].; "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" [Hamlet]; "sharp-tooth'd unkindness" [Lear].
#908. Malediction.—N. malediction, malison[obs3], curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination[obs3], thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha[obs3]; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation. abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing &c. v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility. threat &c. 909; more bark than bite; invective &c. (disapprobation) 932. V. curse, accurse[obs3], imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction. execrate, beshrew[obs3], scold; anathematize &c. (censure) 932; bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten &c. 909. curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn. Adj. cursing, cursed &c. v. Int. woe to! beshrew[obs3]! ruat coelum[Lat]! ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt[obs3]! honi soit[Fr]! parbleu[Fr]! Phr. delenda est Carthago[Lat].
#909. Threat.—N. threat, menace; defiance &c. 715; abuse, minacity[obs3], intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination &c. (curse) 908[obs3]; gathering clouds &c. (warning) 668. V. threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully. defy &c. 715; intimidate &c. 860; keep in terrorem[Lat], hold up in terrorem[Lat], hold out in terrorem[Lat]; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers. Adj. threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious[obs3]; comminatory[obs3], abusive; in terrorem[Lat]; ominous &c. (predicting) 511 ; defiant &c. 715; under the ban. Int. vae victis[Lat]! at your peril! do your worst!
#910. Philanthropy.—N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal benevolence; endaemonism[obs3], deliciae humani generis[Lat]; cosmopolitanism, utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology. common weal; socialism, communism, Fourierism|!, phalansterianism[obs3], Saint Simonianism[obs3]. patriotism, civism[obs3], nationality, love of country, amor patriae[Lat], public spirit. chivalry, knight errantry[obs3]; generosity &c. 942. philanthropist, endaemonist[obs3], utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis[Lat]; knight errant; patriot. Adj. philanthropic, humanitarian, utilitarian, cosmopolitan; public- spirited, patriotic; humane, large-hearted &c. (benevolent) 906; chivalric; generous &c. 942. Adv. pro bono publico[Lat], pro aris et focis [Lat][obs3][Cicero]. Phr. humani nihil a me alienum puto [Lat][Terence]; omne solum forti patria [Lat][Ovid]; un bien fait n'est jamais perdu[Fr].
#911. Misanthropy.—N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c.(selfishness) 943; moroseness &c. 901a; cynicism.misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon,Diogenes.woman hater, misogynist.Adj. misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical &c.(selfish)943; morose &c. 901a.
#912. Benefactor.—N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae[Lat]; salt of the earth &c. (good man); 948; auxiliary &c. 711.
#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer—N. evil doer, evil worker;wrongdoer &c. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer,Vandal; iconoclast|!.firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U. S.], pyromaniac; anarchist,communist|!, terrorist.savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian[obs3], caitiff,desperado; Apache[obs3], hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly*, pug-ugly* [U.S.], RedSkin, tough [U. S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough,hooligan, larrikin[obs3], dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief &c. 792.cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp,rattlesnake, anaconda|!.canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran[obs3],alligator, caymon[obs3], crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo;bane &c. 663.cutthroat &c. (killer) 461.cannibal; anthropophagus|!, anthropophagist|!; bloodsucker, vampire,ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon|!, gerfalcon|!.wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound,sleuth-hound; catamount [U. S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.hag, hellhag[obs3], beldam, Jezebel.monster; fiend &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape;Frankenstein's monster.harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.Hun, Attila[obs3], scourge of the human race.Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat].
#914. Pity.—N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long- suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam[Lat], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae[Lat]. sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole &c. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis[Lat], give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity &c. n..; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy &c. v.; supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate. Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c. (philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened[obs3]; lenient &c. 740; exorable[obs3], forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak. Int. for pity's sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy! God help you! poor thing! poor dear! poor fellow! woe betide! "quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!" [Lat][Vergil]. Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat][Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa[Garrick][It].
#914a. Pitilessness.—N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity&c. 739; malevolence &c. 907.V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no quarter.Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful,inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate[obs3],uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.
#915. Condolence.—N. condolence; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy, consolation. V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.
#916. Gratitude.—N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation. acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will. thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c. (worship) 990[Lat]; grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering. requital. V. be grateful &c. adj.; thank; give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c. n.; acknowledge, requite. feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gr[Fr]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees. Adj. grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation. Int. thanks! many thanks! gramercy[obs3]! much obliged! thank you! thank you very much! thanks a lot! thanks a heap, thanks loads [coll.]; thank Heaven! Heaven be praised! Gott sei Dank[Ger]!.
#917. Ingratitude.—N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion ofbenefits, unthankfulness[obs3]."benefits forgot"; thankless task,thankless office.V. be ungrateful &c. adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in themouth.Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting ingratitude, insensible of benefits.forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked[obs3], unrequited, unrewarded;ill-requited.Int. thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! "et tu Brute!"[Julius Caesar].Phr. "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear].
#918. Forgiveness.—N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace,remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c. (pacification) 723;propitiation.excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity,act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c.(acquittal) 970.longanimity[obs3], placability; amantium irae[Lat]; locuspaenitentiae[Lat]; forbearance.V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, letbygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over,overlook; wink at &c. (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowancesfor; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c. 970.beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c. n.; conciliate, propitiate,placate; make up a quarrel &c. (pacify) 723; let the wound heal.Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory,.forgiven &c. v.; unresented[obs3], unavenged, unrevenged[obs3].Adv. cry you mercy.Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat][Horace]; more in sorrowthan in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner[Fr]; "the offendernever pardons" [Herbert].
#919. Revenge.—N. revenge, revengement[obs3]; vengeance; avengement[obs3], avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning. rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907; ruthlessness &c. 914a. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides. V. revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast. Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c. 914a; ruthless, rigorous, avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless. aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus[Lat]; rankling; immitigable. Phr. manet ciratrix[Lat], manet alid mente repostum[Lat][obs3]; dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Lat][Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Lat][obs3][Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice].
#920. Jealousy.—N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envioussuspicion, suspicion; "green-eyed monster" [Othello]; yellows; Juno.V. be jealous &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon[obs3]; jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.
#921. Envy.—N. envy; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie demilier[Fr]; illwill, spite.V. envy, covet, burst with envy.Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens[Lat].Phr. "base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]; caeca invidiaest [Lat][Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat][Horace]; summa petitlivor [Lat][Ovid].
#922. Right.—N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness &c. adj.; summum jus[Lat]. justice, equity; equitableness &c. adj.; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis[Lat]. Astraea[obs3], Nemesis, Themis. scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique[Lat]; clear stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field. morals &c. (duty) 926; law &c. 963; honor &c. (probity) 939; virtue &c. 944. V. be right &c. adj.; stand to reason. see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense &c. (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem[Lat]. deserve &c. (be entitled to) 924. Adj. right, good; just, reasonable; fit &c. 924; equal, equable, equatable[obs3]; evenhanded, fair. legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful &c. (permitted) 760, (legal) 963. deserved &c. 924. Adv. rightly &c. adj.; bon droit[Fr], au bon droit[Fr], in justice, in equity,, in reason. without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons; upon even terms. Int. all right! fair's fair. Phr. Dieu et mon droit[Fr]; "in equal scale weighing delight and dole" [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Lat][Cicero]; justitiae soror incorrupta fides[Lat]; justitia virtutem regina[Lat]; "thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just" [Henry VI].
#923. Wrong.—N. wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be;malum in se[Lat]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness &c. adj.; iniquity, foul play.partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit,partisanship; bigotry.undueness &c. 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness &c. 964.robbing Peter to pay Paul &c. v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice &c. 945."a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].V. be wrong &c. adj.; cry to heaven for vengeance.do wrong &c. n.; be inequitable &c. adj.; favor, lean towards;encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch andtake an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul.Adj. wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable,unequitable[obs3]; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious[Law].objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified &c. 925; illegal &c. 964;iniquitous; immoral &c. 945.in the wrong, in the wrong box.Adv. wrongly &c. adj.Phr. it will not do.
#924. Dueness.—N. due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative, prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity, license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right. sanction, authority, warranty, charter; warrant &c. (permission) 760; constitution &c. (law) 963; tenure; bond &c. (security) 771. claimant, appellant; plaintiff &c. 938. V. be due &c. adj. to, be the due &c. n. of; have right to, have title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a claim upon; belong to &c. (property) 780. deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve. demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate[obs3], reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case. give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize &c. 760; sanctify, legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot. give every one his due &c. 922; pay one's dues; have one's due, have one's rights. use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution. Adj. having a right to &c. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of. privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible[obs3], inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved. allowable &c. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal; legalized &c. (law) 963. square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c. 922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles[Fr]. Adv. duly, ex officio, de jure[Lat]; by right, by divine right; jure divino[Lat], Dei gratia[Lat], in the name of. Phr. civis Romanus sum [Lat][Cicero]; chaque saint sa chandelle[Fr].
#925. [Absence of right.] Undueness.—N. undueness &c. adj.; malumprohibitum[Lat]; impropriety; illegality &c. 964.falseness &c. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title;illegitimacy.loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture.usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption,assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share.usurper, pretender.V. be undue &c. adj.; not be due &c. 924.infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself;give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp,violate, do violence to.disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.relax &c. (be lax) 738; misbehave &c. (vice) 945; misbecome[obs3].Adj. undue; unlawful &c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit;unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed[obs3], unsanctioned,unjustified; unentitled[obs3], disentitled, unqualified, disqualified;unprivileged, unchartered.illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.tortious [Law].undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.forfeited, disfranchised.improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,misbecoming[obs3]; seemless[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat]; not the thing,out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious,would-be.Phr. filius nullius.
#926. Duty.—N. duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation,
accountableness[obs3], liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty,
imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability.
allegiance, fealty, tie engagement &c. (promise) 768; part; function,
calling &c. (business) 625.
morality,, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness
&c. (probity) 939; conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within,
sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within [P. L.].
dueness &c. 924; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum,
#927. Dereliction of Duty.—N. dereliction of duty; fault &c. (guilt) 947; sin &c. (vice) 945; non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter. V. violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail. call to account &c. (disapprobation) 932.
#927a. Exemption.—N. exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation &c. 970. V. be exempt &c. adj. exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve &c. (forgive) 918; exonerate &c. (exculpate) 970; save the necessity. Adj. exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released &c. v.; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable. Phr. bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Lat][Syrus].
#928. Respect.—N. respect, regard, consideration; courtesy &c. 894; attention, deference, reverence, honor, esteem, estimation, veneration, admiration; approbation &c. 931. homage, fealty, obeisance, genuflection, kneeling prostration; obsequiousness &c. 886; salaam, kowtow, bow, presenting arms, salute. respects, regards, duty, devoirs, egards. devotion &c. (piety) 987. V. respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor, venerate, hallow; esteem &c. (approve of) 931; think much of; entertain respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect &c. n. to; do honor to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy &c. 894; salute, present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of one's garment; worship &c. 990. keep one's distance, make room, observe due decorum, stand upon ceremony. command respect, inspire respect; awe, inspire awe, impose, overawe, dazzle. Adj. respecting &c.v.; respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential, obsequious, ceremonious, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees; prostrate &c. (servile) 886. respected &c.v.; in high esteem, in high estimation; time-honored, venerable, emeritus. Adv. in deference to; with all respect, with all due respect, with due respect, with the highest respect; with submission. saving your grace, saving your presence; salva sit reverentia[Lat]; pace tanti nominis[Lat]. Int. hail! all hail! esto perpetua[Lat]! may your shadow never be less! Phr. "and pluck up drowned honor by the locks" [Henry IV]; "his honor rooted in dishonor stood" [Tennyson]; "honor pricks me on" [Henry IV].
#929. Disrespect.—N. disrespect, disesteem, disestimation[obs3]; disparagement &c. (dispraise) 932, (detraction) 934. irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae [Lat][Vergil], superciliousness &c. (contempt) 930. vilipendency|, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy &c. 895; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision[obs3]; derision; mockery; irony &c. (ridicule) 856; sarcasm. hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek|, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face. V. hold in disrespect &c. (despise) 930; misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful &c. adj., be discourteous &c. 895; treat with disrespect &c.n.; set down, put down, browbeat. dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage. speak slightingly of; disparage &c. (dispraise) 932; vilipend[obs3], vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather. have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle[obs3], gleek|!, gird, flout, fleer[obs3]; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque &c. 856; laugh to scorn &c. (contempt) 930; smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of[obs3]; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob. Adj. disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging &c. 934; insulting &c.v.; supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing &c. (scornful) 930; rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious. unrespected[obs3], unworshiped[obs3], unenvied[obs3], unsaluted[obs3]; unregarded[obs3], disregarded. Adv. disrespectfully &c. adj.
#930. Contempt.—N. contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal[obs3], despiciency[obs3]; despisement[obs3]; vilipendency|!, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect[obs3]. contemptuousness &c. adj.; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision &c. (disrespect) 929. despisedness[obs3][State of being despised]. V. despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by &c. (neglect) 460. look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate &c. 483; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at &c. (unimportance) 643; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas[Fr]; laugh at &c. (be disrespectful) 929. point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at. turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds &c. (repudiate) 610; send away with a flea in the ear. Adj. contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive. contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful &c. (unimportant) 643; despised &c.v.; downtrodden; unenvied[obs3]. unrespectable (unworthy) 874. Adv. contemptuously &c. adj. Int. a fig for &c. (unimportant) 643; bah! never mind! away with! hang it! fiddlededee! Phr. "a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise Lost]; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius Caesar].
#931. Approbation.—N. approbation; approval, approvement[obs3];
sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion,
golden opinions, admiration; love &c. 897; appreciation, regard, account,
popularity,
[note 1][Obsolete in England except in legal writings, but surviving in the United States chiefly in a technical sense for license. C.O.S.M.].
#932. Disapprobation.—N. disapprobation, disapproval; improbation[obs3]; disesteem, disvaluation[obs3], displacency[obs3]; odium; dislike &c. 867. dispraise, discommendation[obs3]; blame, censure, obloquy; detraction &c. 934; disparagement, depreciation; denunciation; condemnation &c. 971; ostracism; black list. animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism; sardonic grin, sardonic laugh; sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo; bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment. satire; sneer &c. (contempt) 930; taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; cavil, carping, censoriousness; hypercriticism &c. (fastidiousness) 868. reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation[obs3], reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation[obs3], lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec[Fr], rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look. diatribe; jeremiad, jeremiade; tirade, philippic. clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation, catcall; execration &c. 908. chiding, upbraiding &c.v.; exprobation[obs3], abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words. evil-speaking; bad language &c. 908; personality. V. disapprove; dislike &c. 867; lament &c. 839; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari[Lat], disvalue[obs3]; improbate[obs3]. frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose &c. (contempt) 930; look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against. dispraise, discommend[obs3], disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn &c. (find guilty) 971. blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder[Fr], reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn. remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate. reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue[obs3]; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct. reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete[Fr], overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet. accuse &c. 938; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against. execrate &c. 908; exprobate[obs3], speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile|, revile; vilify, vilipend[obs3]; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw[obs3]; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches. exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against. decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin. animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; "hint a fault and hesitate dislike"; not to be able to say much for. scoff at, point at; twit, taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; sneer at &c. (despise) 230; satirize, lampoon; defame &c. (detract) 934; depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious &c. adj.; pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about. take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue. incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. take blame, stand corrected; have to answer for. Adj. disapproving &c.v.; scandalized. disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory[obs3], denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory[obs3], clamorous, vituperative; defamatory &c. 934. satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious &c. 868; sparing of praise, grudging praise. disapproved, chid &c.v.; in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest[obs3]; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting. blameworthy, reprehensible &c. (guilt) 947; to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad &c. 649; vicious &c. 945. unlamented, unbewailed[obs3], unpitied[obs3]. Adv. with a wry face; reproachfully &c. adj. Int. it is too bad! it won't do, it will never do! marry come up! Oh! come! 'sdeath! forbid it Heaven! God forbid, Heaven forbid! out upon, fie upon it! away with! tut! O tempora[obs3]! O mores! shame! fie, fie for shame! out on you! tell it not in Gath!