gruits
English
|
bruits
English
bruit
English
Noun
(–)
(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.
* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7
- Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),
- But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days , chapter=Ep./1/1
, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)
Verb
(en verb )
(US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
* 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,
- There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
- And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder.
* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,
- Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.
* {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04
, year=
, first=
, last=
, author=Darren Murph
, authorlink=
, title=China’s maglev trains to hit 1,000km/h in three years
, site=Engadget
citation
, archiveorg=
, accessdate=2013-03-18
, passage= … it’s bruited that the tunnel would cost “10 to 20 million yuan …
}}
—-
|