harrowing
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/
Verb
harrowing
Adjective
harrowing (comparative more harrowing, superlative most harrowing)
- Causing pain or distress.
- 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
- Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
- 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
- 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
Translations
causing pain or distress
|
Noun
harrowing (plural harrowings)
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- The field received two harrowings.
- Suffering, torment.
- Christ's triumphal descent into Hell.
- 2002, Michael W. Herren & Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century, →ISBN, page 157:
- The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world.
- 2013, Robert E. Bjork, The Cynewulf Reader, →ISBN, page 153:
- But Juliana's uniquely powerful chaining of the devil is surely meant to recall Christ's harrowing of hell.
- 1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 108:
- In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven.
Translations
the process of breaking up earth with a harrow
|