| 单词 | a whit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa whit b. Without negative. a whit: to a very small extent, a very little. any whit, one whit: to the least amount, in the least degree, at all. every (†each) whit: completely, altogether, thoroughly, quite (in later use almost always with as in comparisons of equality). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in the least or the slightest degree the leastc1400 any whit1526 one whit1526 (not) a wink1596 in the least1608 in the smallesta1616 in the leastwise1676 tint1886 the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > in full or to fullest extent to the full1340 at the fulla1375 at one's righta1425 in (the) wholea1475 every (each) whit1526 full due1574 in gross1606 in full habitudea1661 to capacity1958 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John vii. f. cxxxv Disdayne ye at me, be cause I made a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye? a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 411 Elynour made the pryce For good ale eche whyt. 1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. l. 161 Every Child..that can any whit speak. 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iv. sig. D.ijv He eaten vp euery whit. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ii. 104 Master Zuinglius (who woulde haue beene lothe one whit to strengthen the Papistes). 1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 49 Yf they be suffred but a whit longer, they will make claime to the whole Indies. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal ii. 15 I have written..a whole cart-load of things, every whit as good as this. 1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 12 The Primæval Earth will be e'ery whit as ill shaped as that we poor Mortals inhabit. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 274 Every whit as wild and extravagant. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xiii. 309 Were my situation one whit less perilous. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 342 At the King's command A clerk that day did note it every whit. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 231 The narrative of this campaign..is every whit as puzzling. 1903 I. Zangwill Grey Wig vi. 110 Mrs. Drabdump felt a whit uneasy. 1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 223 And really a talking animal is only a whit more startling than a talking star. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxiv. 214 Thurso and Yellow Henry were using the argument from quantity too, and every whit as rigorously. < as lemmas |
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