| 单词 | great-grown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat-grown great-grown adj. now literary rare ΚΠ c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) iv. 30 Na our grete growin men, na men our fat. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 117 He helde a shorte grete growen spere, sharp grounden. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. P3v The tree which serueth for a shade, Whose great growne body doth repulse the wind. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. x. 31 Away..And take the great-growne Traytor vnawares. View more context for this quotation 1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb iii. 327 Men are only great grown children. 1836 T. Wyse Educ. Reform ii. 434 The child strikes at what is nearest, and revenges on chairs and tables blows he has inflicted on himself. So is it with the great grown child, uncivilised man. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. II. v. 13 Shall wend, with them, now great-grown, Sigamer; Who newly, of Heremod, received manly arms. 1933 J. G. Underhill tr. L. F. de V. Carpio King, Greatest Alcalde ii, in B. H. Clark World Drama 108/2 For love is born of a great-grown desire. < as lemmas |
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