Meaning of pessimise | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of pessimize.

Commonwealth, UK, alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“The pessimising and desponding tone of the Tory Foreign Minister's correspondence, in the early part of 1859, can hardly be read⟳ without a shudder.”

“Glancing at the developments of individualities in memberdom, it may be said that Lord Elebo availed himself of the last⟳ appearance in the House of the Army Estimates to repeat⟳ the attacks on the physical condition of the men of the service which he had so elaborately made a week or two ago; and he pessimised on the subject, if possible, with the same exaggeration as before.”

“Certainly it was not in the interest⟳ of the Government to come⟳ forward⟳ and propose⟳ any additional taxation if they could, with consistency and with satisfaction to heir own⟳ consciences, have⟳ avoided it, and he did not think⟳ his two previous Budgets showed that it was in his nature to pessimise or to take⟳ desponding views.”

“Pessimists, no more than poets, love⟳ each other, and even when they work⟳ together it is one thing to pessimise congenially with an ancient and tried associate who is also a butt, and another to be pessimised over by an inexperienced junior, even though the latter's college career may have⟳ included more exhibitions—nay, even pot-huntings—than one's own⟳.”

“Said very likely [...] the war means that the barbarian will gradually freeze⟳ out culture. Nor have⟳ we improved. Tom [James Joyce] & Saxon [Sydney-Turner] said the Greeks were more thoroughly civilised. The slave was not so much a slave as ours are. Clive also pessimised—saw⟳ the light⟳ going out gradually. So I flung some rather crazy theories into the air.”

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