单词 | day or night |
释义 | > as lemmasday or night (b) day or night: by day or by night; at any time. Similarly (neither) day nor (also † ne) night: neither by day nor by night; not at any time. Cf. night n. and int. Phrases 1a(b).Earliest in negative constructions. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 211 On ðam ne ablinð granung, & þoterung dæges oððe nihtes. c1175 ( Homily (Cambr. Ii.1.33) in A. M. Luiselli Fadda Nuove Omelie Anglosassoni (1977) 151 Hig þonne þar nane reste nabað, dæges ne nihtes, butan on þære drihtenlican æristes tide.] a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 57 (MED) Ne beo þu nawiht monslaht ne in hordom dei ne naht. c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) l. 48 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 494 (MED) Noþer dai ne niȝt hi nolde hem noȝt forgo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 3449 (MED) So harde wiþ-in hir wombe þai faȝt atte ho ne mote reste day ne naȝt. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1999) II. l. 11390 To her kinde [sc. fish] it longeþ noght To slepe day or night oght. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 37 (MED) I pray to god..that he me kepe in such A plyght..I to affendyn hym day nor nyght. ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 279 I woll sure yow be thys lyght. Neuer dystre[n] yow daye nor nyght. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N3 Neuer exceeding a penny a quart day nor night; and this deare yeare..scarce that. 1658 S. Slater Rhetorical Rapture (single sheet) They neither Day nor Night spare any pains, But to Corpulentize ravenous Wembs Anthropophagize even Royal Stems. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 43 With a dreadful industry of ten days, not respiting his Souldiers day or night. 1799 Lavinia 83 She had too, a friend in the object of her affection, that felt all her pangs, and ceased not day nor night to supplicate the Divine favour in her behalf. 1871 E. S. Phelps Silent Partner xi. 224 The mercury has not been below 90°, day nor night, for a week. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 2/1 (advt.) Modern gas water heaters assure you ample hot water—day or night. 2011 J. D'Amboise I was Dancer 225 The dancing never stopped, day or night. < as lemmas |
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