a poet manqué

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• manqué — In the meaning ‘that might have been but is not’, manqué is placed after the noun it refers to: a poet manqué …   Modern English usage

• manqué — adjective Etymology: French, from past participle of manquer to lack, fail, from Italian mancare, from manco lacking, left handed, from Latin, having a crippled hand, probably from manus Date: 1778 short of or frustrated in the fulfillment of one …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• manqué — /mahng kay /; Fr. /mahonn kay /, adj. having failed, missed, or fallen short, esp. because of circumstances or a defect of character; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively): a poet manqué who never produced a single …   Universalium

• manqué — man|qué [ man keı ] adjective LITERARY used about someone who has tried to do a particular activity but is not successful: a poet manqué …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• manqué — UK [ˈmɒŋkeɪ] / US [mɑnˈkeɪ] adjective literary used about someone who has tried to do a particular activity but is not successful a poet manqué …   English dictionary

• manqué — man•qué [[t]mɑŋˈkeɪ, mɑ̃ [/t]] adj. unsuccessful; unfulfilled (used postpositively): a poet manqué[/ex] • Etymology: 1770–80; < F, ptp. of manquer to lack < It < ML, LL mancus (L: feeble, lit., maimed …   From formal English to slang

• man|qué — «mahn KAY», adjective. French. defective or abortive; unfulfilled, unrealized, or frustrated: »a poet manqué, an adventure manqué. At heart every masseur is a doctor manqué (New Yorker) …   Useful english dictionary

• man·qué — /mɑnˈkeı, Brit ˈmɒŋkeı/ adj, always used after a noun formal used to describe what a person could or should have been but never was He works as a cook but thinks of himself as a poet manqué. an artist manqué …   Useful english dictionary

• PASSION — On note avec étonnement la quasi disparition du terme passion dans le vocabulaire de la psychologie contemporaine, qui utilise bien plus volontiers les concepts de tendance, d’affect ou de pulsion. La notion ne figure même pas à l’index de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• être — 1. être [ ɛtr ] v. intr. <conjug. : 61; aux temps comp., se conjugue avec avoir > • IXe; inf. 1080; lat. pop. °essere, class. esse; certaines formes empr. au lat. stare I ♦ 1 ♦ Avoir une réalité. ⇒ exister. ♢ (Personnes) Être ou ne pas être …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• voir — [ vwar ] v. <conjug. : 30> • XIIe veoir; vedeir 980; lat. videre I ♦ V. intr. (1080 vedeir) Percevoir les images des objets par le sens de la vue. C est « un postulat bien ancré, qu un nouveau né [...] “ça” ne voit pas » (F. Leboyer). Ne… …   Encyclopédie Universelle