He had been born with the hopes of the Renaissance, with its anticipation of a new Augustan age, and had seen this fair promise blighted by the irruption of a new horde of theological polemics, worse than the old scholastics, inasmuch as they were revolutionary instead of conservative.
blighted הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד