喪失
LOSS(そうしつ)[/lɔs/]名詞
解説
付記
ここにハンチントンの灰が久しく横たわる。 彼の損失こそ、我々の永遠の利益だ。 なぜなら、彼がその権力を振るっている間は、 彼が得たものは何であれ、我々の損失だったからだ。
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Original
Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election"; and of that eminent man, the poet Gilder, that he has "lost his mind." It is in the former and more legitimate sense, that the word is used in the famous epitaph:
Additional notes
Here Huntington's ashes long have lain Whose loss is our eternal gain, For while he exercised all his powers Whatever he gained, the loss was ours.