multiplying glass

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.
    — 1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 95, […] ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass.
  2. A magnifying glass. obsolete
    — Will he forgive that dim sight which I have of sin now, when sins scarce appeare to be sins unto me, and will he forgive that over-quick sight, when I shall see my sins through Satans multiplying glasse of desperation, when I shall thinke them greater then his mercy, upon my death bed?

词形变化

multiplying glasses plural
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