| 释义 |
free-spoken, a.
[cf. plain spoken]
Accustomed to speak plainly and without reserve. Hence free-spokenness.
1625Bacon Apophthegms §176 A free-spoken Senatour. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1738 I. 79 These free-spoken and plain-hearted Men, that are the Eyes of their Country. 1856Grote Greece ii. xcvi. XII. 508 The slaughter of the free-spoken orators. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home 269 In our refined era, just the same as at that more free-spoken epoch. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 486 The free-spokenness of Queen Elizabeth and King James. |