单词 | ever the longer, the |
释义 | > as lemmasever the longer, the—— (a) Before the correlatives the——the (Old English swā——swā, early Middle English se—se). Esp. in ever the longer, the——: the greater the amount of time that elapses, the——. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxvii. 312 Æfre swa man hi swiðor hynde, swa þær ma beah to ðam soðan geleafan. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1052 His wered wanode æfre þe leng þe swiðor. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 51 Þis fis [sc. crabbe] is of swulc cunde þet euer se he mare strengðdeð him to sw[i]mminde mid þe watere se he mare swimmeð abac. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 398 Ant eauer se hare murhðe, wes mare to ȝederes, se þe sorhe is sarre ed te twinununge. c1300 St. Dunstan (Laud) l. 29 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 20 Euere þe leng þe more. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 15 (MED) Euere þe þickere þe felde is i-marled, þe better corn it wil bere. c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 110 Er þe lenger þe more. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 58 Ȝer þe more þat þey þole, ai þe more schal þe fendis torment. a1500 (?1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 173 Evere þe lenger þat þou lyfest to lyve bi Goddis lawe, evere þe harder it is to þee to come agayne. a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 1883 (MED) Euyr the fayrer that she spake, The fouler braydes gan he make. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. iii. f. ciii/2 He chaungeth so often, and wryteth euer the longer the more contrary, not to hys aduersary onely, but also to hym selfe. 1610 T. Fitzherbert 2nd Pt. Treat. Policy & Relig. xvi. 218 Euen a sinner not reclaimed, or staid by Gods grace, falleth commonlie from sinne to sinne, and euer the longer the worse, vntil he come (as the wise man saith) in profundum. 1666 E. Reynolds Serm. Westm. 7 Nov. 30 Ever the more Proud, the more Passionate. 1710 M. Henry Expos. Poet. Bks. Old Test. Job vi. sig. C4v The Burthens of Life will be ever the longer the more grievous. a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xvi. 131 She wearied of the guarded city of Gondolin, desiring ever the longer the more to ride again in the wide lands and to walk in the forests. < as lemmas |
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