abrook
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]abrook (third-person singular simple present abrooks, present participle abrooking, simple past and past participle abrooked)
- To brook; to endure. [from late 16th c.][1]
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12:
- […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]
References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrook”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.