| 单词 | for lief or loath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfor lief or loath 3. Antithetically to loath, in senses A. 1, A. 2. Also absol., esp. in for lief or loath. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΚΠ OE Beowulf 511 Ne inc ænig mon, ne leof ne lað, belean mihte sorhfullne sið. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 183 Al þat me was leof, hit was þe loð. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2379 Ne leten he nouth for lef ne loth. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypsipyle. 1639 That he for lef or loth Ne shulde neuere hire false. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi Other for lyef or lothe. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 1182 The Cooke, be he loothe or leeff. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hiv Nowe leue, nowe lothe. 1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris ii. ii. sig. Cv Well, Iuno, whether wee bee leyfe or lothe, Venus hathe got the aple from vs bothe. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. i. iv. iv Our adversaries, loth or lief Must needs confesse that [etc.]. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 363 An oath To do my bidding once, if lieve or loath It were to thee. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano iii. viii. 136 Now hence must I..be I loth or lief. < as lemmas |
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