Mordant vs Macabre - What's the difference?
mordant | macabre |
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
* 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
Any corrosive substance used in etching.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
Representing or personifying death.
* 1941 , George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society , page 106
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
* 1993 , Theodore Ziolkowski, "Wagner's Parsifal'' between Mystery and Mummery", ''in'' Werner Sollors (ed.), ''The Return of Thematic Criticism , pages 274-275
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
* 1927 [1938], , Introduction
As adjectives the difference between mordant and macabre
is that mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe while macabre is representing or personifying death.As a noun mordant
is any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.As a verb mordant
is to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.mordant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Mordant these goods for dyeing.
See also
* (wikipedia "mordant") * mordentAnagrams
* ----macabre
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.
- Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.
- The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.