English Dictionary

emptyhandedness

名詞

不可算名詞

The state of having nothing in one's hands. / Poverty or lack of possessions and resources. / Lack of anything to offer / The lack of something one sought to acquire.

日本語の意味

手ぶらである状態 / 所有物や資源がない、貧困の状態 / 提供するものが何もない状態 / 求めたものが欠けている状態

After the long search, she returned home in emptyhandedness, having found no trace of the lost heirloom.

長い捜索の末、彼女は何も手に持っていない状態で家に戻り、失われた家宝の痕跡は見つからなかった。

意味（1）

The state of having nothing in one's hands.

Mr. Basehart offers it again, Here, cousin, and dances away again, leaving Bolingbroke accused by his own emptyhandedness.

意味（2）

Poverty or lack of possessions and resources.

Now on account of my emptyhandedness and want of means, I am unable to provide for the law charges and remuneration of attorneys and counsel and such matters and without appointing a protector over me, it is impossible to meet the costs and charges of the suits, and of the attorneys and counsel an my personal expense, and rent of the house which I now occupy, and the wages of servants &c.

意味（3）

Lack of anything to offer

Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness!

意味（4）

The lack of something one sought to acquire.

Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.

意味（5）

Failure to accomplish a task or mission.

And the clanging call of the general alarm rasped you to battle stations, night and day, from sleep and from meals, always with the same emptyhandedness of failure in the end.

意味（6）

Lack of a weapon; the state of being unarmed.

...Mills had first spoken his gibberish of good intention, always careful, though they did not travel in armor, to lean down from their mounts to shake hands in the trendy new symbol of emptyhandedness and unarmedness that they'd picked up on their travels.