单词 | sophrosyne |
释义 | sophrosyne|səʊˈfrɒzɪniː| Also sophrosune. [ad. Gr. σωϕροσύνη prudence, moderation, f. σώϕρων of sound mind, prudent.] Soundness of mind, moderation, prudence, self-control.
1889Cent. Dict., Sophrosyne. 1944Auden For Time Being 89, I am that star most dreaded by the wise, For they are drawn against their will to me, Yet read in my procession through the skies The doom of orthodox sophrosyne [1945 U.K. ed. suphrosyne]. 1947Mind LVI. 363 Lord Russell gives us to understand that he has no use for sophrosyne. a1963C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 3 Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions. 1970J. Gardner Wreckage of Agathon 153 Even when his ideas were crazy, the man had sophrosyne, as they used to call it in the old days. |

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