Meaning of disparadise | Babel Free
dɪsˈpæɹədaɪsExamples
“O Pride, of all heaven-relapsing praemunires the most fearful – thou that ere this had disparadised our first parent, Adam, and unrighteoused the very angels –, how shall I arm mine elocution to break⟳ through the ranks of thy hilly stumbling blocks?”
“Besides, man is not that famishing thing which the Malthusians represent⟳: indeed they talk⟳ as if geometrical increase⟳ was original sin, and that Adam and Eve were disparadised from Eden by the pressure of population against the means of subsistence.”
“But what indeed is ask'd of me? / Not this, some spirits, it is told, / Have⟳ will'd to be disparadised / For love⟳ and greater glory of Christ.”
“Yea, that same awful angel with the glaive / Which in disparadising orbit swept / Lintel and pilaster and architrave”
“This disparadising of Urania by a snake suggests that [Percy Bysshe] Shelley has finally been able to arouse her by curiously satanic means. It is a troubling suggestion, and it will return⟳ with Shelley's later self-images of sexual transgression […]”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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