harmn.

Brit.

/hɑːm/, U.S.

/hɑrm/

Forms: Old English–Middle English hearm, Middle English herm, Middle English ( harem), hærm, ( ærme), (Middle English arme), Middle English–1600s herme, harme, (Middle English harim, arm, Middle English harome), 1500s Scottish hairm(e, Middle English– harm.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hearm, corresponding to Old Frisian herm, Old Saxon harm, Old High German harm, haram (modern German harm), Old Norse harmr grief, sorrow, rarely harm, hurt (Swedish harm, Danish harme) < Old Germanic *harmo-z: perhaps cognate with Sanskrit śrama labour, toil.

a. Evil (physical or otherwise) as done to or suffered by some person or thing; hurt, injury, damage, mischief. Often in the set phrase ‘to do more harm than good’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun]

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harmOE

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hurt?c1225

quede?c1225

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damage1300

follyc1300

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impairment1340

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sorrowc1380

pairingc1384

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mischiefc1385

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noyinga1398

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envya1400

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gremec1400

wilc1400

blemishing1413

lesion?a1425

nocument?a1425

injuryc1430

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ill1470

untroth1470

diversity1484

remordc1485

unhappinessc1485

grudge1491

wriguldy-wrag?1520

danger1530

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interestc1575

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mishap1587

endamagement1593

blemishment1596

mischievance1600

damnificationa1631

oblesion1656

mishanter1754

vitiation1802

mar1876

jeel1887

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun]

harmOE

tinsela1340

damagec1374

offensiona1382

pairmentc1384

wrongc1384

offencec1385

wrackc1407

lesion?a1425

ruin1467

prejudicec1485

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qualm1513

jacture1515

imblemishment1529

perishment1540

impeachment1548

blame1549

dommagie1556

execution1581

damagement1603

sufferancea1616

stroy1682

murder1809

punishment1839

OE Beowulf 1892 No he mid hearme of hliðes nosan gæs[tas] grette.

a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1101 His men mycel to hearme æfre gedydon.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 277 To gret harm to al þys lond, the gode kyng he slou.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2578 Þay mowe noȝt her y-wys hem-selue fram herme saue.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 537 Thou shalt have no harme truely.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 4898 Do ham na arme in na way.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iv. 23 Sche doth non harm to no man, but ȝif men don hire harm.

1442 Searchers' Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1888) 18 Ye same place has taken mikel herm for defaut of a gutter.

?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. A.ii All that hath yonge people, good maners let them to lerne To theyr elders w^t gentyl condicions, let do nor say no harme.

a1586 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxv. 59 Ȝe knaw quhat hairme he hes susteind.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 62 What harme was done by us amongst the Infidels, we were not assured.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Caterpillars..do very great harme.

1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 16 Harm watch, harm catch.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. x. 89 I meant no harm.

1809 Q. Rev. May 305 The story should be suppressed altogether, as one which will do more harm than good.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 44 Aware that the divulging of the truth might do harm.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxix. 573 I should have done you more harm than good, at first.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 331 Rains doing harm instead of good.

1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. xxix These rare cases actually do more harm than good.

b. With a and plural. An evil done or sustained; an injury, a loss.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun]

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harmOE

teenOE

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injuryc1384

truitc1390

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supprise1442

trouble1463

damage1470

objectionc1475

interess1489

tort1532

mishanter1754

society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed

misdeedeOE

murderOE

harmOE

un-i-selthlOE

ungooda1250

wickednessa1325

illa1340

untetchea1375

villainy1377

wretchednessc1380

misdoingc1460

malefice1591

turpitude1597

meschantery1634

misactiona1667

naughtiness1789

wrongdoing1874

OE Genesis 759 Ealle synt uncre hearmas gewrecene.

c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 59 Ær ðu muȝe þoliȝen alle harmes and scames and bismeres.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 349 Oþer bodili harmes.

?1463 R. Cutler in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 260 Of ij harmys þe leste is to be take.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. viii. 384 Wise is he whome other mens harmes can cause to take heede.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 263 The inconceivable Harms he did to Christendom.

1863 H. W. Longfellow Poet's Tale xix, in Tales Wayside Inn 198 They..from your harvests keep a hundred harms.

c. out of harm's way: Out of the way of doing or of sustaining injury.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > out of the way of (doing) harm

out of harm's waya1661

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 44 Some great persons..have been made Sheriffes to keep them out of harms way.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 207 He took care to keep himself out of harms way.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 136. ⁋4 People send Children..to School to keep them out of Harm's way.

1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. I. xiv. 333 They had..migrated in time out of harm's way.

†2. Grief, sorrow, pain, trouble, distress, affliction. Also with a and plural. to make harms (quot. c1480): to make lamentation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun]

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teeneOE

sorrowOE

workOE

wrakeOE

careOE

gramec1000

harmOE

howc1000

trayOE

woweOE

angec1175

derfnessc1175

sytec1175

unwinc1175

wosithc1200

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grief?c1225

misease?c1225

misliking?c1225

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painc1330

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illa1340

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constraintc1374

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miscomfortc1390

mislikea1400

smarta1400

thronga1400

balec1400

painfulnessc1400

troublancec1400

smartness?c1425

painliness1435

perplexity?a1439

penalty?1462

calamity1490

penality1496

cumber?a1513

sussy1513

tribule1513

afflict?1529

vexation of spirit1535

troublesomeness1561

hoe1567

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tribulance1575

languishment1576

thrall1578

tine1590

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pathos1684

shock1705

dree1791

vex1815

wrungnessa1875

dukkha1886

thinkache1892

sufferation1976

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction

teeneOE

harmOE

sourc1000

trayOE

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wosithc1200

ail?c1225

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misease?c1225

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strifea1325

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miseasetya1382

angernessc1390

molestc1390

troublancec1400

notea1425

miseasenessc1450

cumber?a1513

tribule1513

unseasonableness?1523

troublesomeness1561

tribulance1575

tine1590

trials and tribulations1591

pressure1648

difficulty1667

hell to pay1758

dree1791

trial and tribulation1792

Queer Street1811

Sturm und Drang1857

a thin time1924

shit1929

crap1932

shtook1936

OE Genesis 754 Eac is hearm gode, modsorg gemacod.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 24089 Þis harm mi hert it held sa hard.

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 578 I wende verraily That he had felt as muche harm as I Whan þat I herde hym speke and saugh his hewe.

c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 68 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 111 Mony ane of hir kine..folowit hyr, makand harmys.

1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 197 Sic hauie harme sall happin to ȝour hart.

1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 47 He lays aside his Arms, for harms to feed his humour.

†3. Pity, a pity. (Cf. French dommage.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] > cause or ground for pity

pityc1325

harmc1430

c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4230 It was harme it wanted oght.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 44 Sobbit full soir that harme wes for to heir.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as harm-doer, harm-doing, harm-taking; harm-averting, harm-eschewing adjs.

ΚΠ

c1220 Bestiary 389 Husebondes hire haten for hire harm dedes.

1386 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) VII. 526/2 Þair sall not be at þa Rydings no Harme doynges.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 41 Them..þ^t ben harmedoers & loueth falshode & desepcion.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxiv. 11) To live quietly..without any harmetaking.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 18 I judge they may passe without harme doing to our cause.

1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 102 Harm-averting songs.

Draft additions September 2019

no harm, no foul: (Basketball) used to express the principle that contact which does not impede an opponent does not constitute a foul; (hence more generally (chiefly U.S.)) used to indicate that a mistake or instance of misconduct should be excused if no real damage has been done.Compare no ——, no —— at no adj. 1d(a).

ΚΠ

1954 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 21 Oct. 12/1 In Dr. Carlson's opinion if the rule ‘no harm, no foul’ were followed, a great game would be made greater.

1968 Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune 13 Feb. 13/1 Athletes..told of receiving free gifts, discounts, and part-time jobs from merchants... ‘I didn't think there's any real harm in what the merchants did... The merchants weren't underhanded about it.’ No harm, no foul.

2018 @Bronsays 20 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My mistake... Late. Tired. I read it the wrong way, I guess. But no harm, no foul. We're good.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

harmv.

Brit.

/hɑːm/, U.S.

/hɑrm/

Forms: Old English hearmian, Middle English haremen, hearmen, hærmen, Middle English herme, Middle English hermien, Middle English–1600s harme, Middle English harmi, harmy, 1500s arme, Middle English– harm.

Etymology: Old English hearmian , < hearm harm n.: compare Old High German harmjan, harmen, hermen to calumniate, injure.

1. To do harm (to); to injure (physically or otherwise); to hurt, damage. Originally intransitive: to be hurtful, with dative (like Latin nocēre), which was sometimes in Middle English expressed by to, but generally became a simple object, making the verb transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to

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wema1000

evilc1000

harmc1000

hinderc1000

teenOE

scathec1175

illc1220

to wait (one) scathec1275

to have (…) wrong1303

annoya1325

grievec1330

wrong1390

to do violence to (also unto)a1393

mischievea1393

damagea1400

annulc1425

trespass1427

mischief1437

poisonc1450

injurea1492

damnify1512

prejudge1531

misfease1571

indemnify1583

bane1601

debauch1633

lese1678

empoison1780

misguggle1814

nobble1860

strafe1915

to dick up1951

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 140 Gif ðu hine forgitst, hit hearmað þe sylfum and na Gode.

c1000 in Leg. Rood 105 Þeah þe hit hearmige sumum.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 To hermen alle monnen.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 53 Þe hwise askið weðer ani þing harmi mare wimmon þenne deð hire echȝe.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 23 To oþren ha wyle harmy..to miszigge to ham þet he wyle harmi.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 248 And holy churche þorw hem worth harmed for euere.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxv Protractyng of tyme onely, hurted and harmed the Kyng.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 153 Harme him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 77 (note) An High Elme..in the midst of a Garden..harms all round about it.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 578 He that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 291 When a man has no sense he is harmed by courage.

2. absol. To do harm or injury.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > do harm [verb (intransitive)]

woundc897

to do or work wough?c1225

to do (work, make) scathec1275

annoy1340

nuisec1350

harm1362

scathe1488

to make violence to (also on, etc.)1529

prank1530

damnify1621

endamage1635

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 136 And hongeþ him for hate þat harmede neuere.

1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. x. sig. Bv She can no more harme than can a shee ape.

1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 90 in Purple Island As arrows..Where they are meant, will surely harm, And if they hit, wound deep and dead.

3. intransitive. To take harm.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [verb (intransitive)]

grievec1350

nuisec1350

unprofita1425

disavailc1425

prejudicate1565

harm1916

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 224 The men is fresh, too, and won't harm for a bit of exercise.

Derivatives

harmed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmed or affected detrimentally

annoyedc1330

infectc1384

palledc1390

harmedc1440

hinderedc1440

weakened1548

maimed1570

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impaired1611

wronged1632

appaired1637

deboist1641

sunken1642

vitiated1660

crippled1674

wounded1692

etiolated1847

injured1857

murdered1876

dicked-up1967

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 228/1 Harmyd, dampnificatus.

ˈharming adj.

ΚΠ

1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 149 They temper the harming force of the colde of it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	harm
释义	harmn. Brit. /hɑːm/, U.S. /hɑrm/ Forms: Old English–Middle English hearm, Middle English herm, Middle English ( harem), hærm, ( ærme), (Middle English arme), Middle English–1600s herme, harme, (Middle English harim, arm, Middle English harome), 1500s Scottish hairm(e, Middle English– harm. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hearm, corresponding to Old Frisian herm, Old Saxon harm, Old High German harm, haram (modern German harm), Old Norse harmr grief, sorrow, rarely harm, hurt (Swedish harm, Danish harme) < Old Germanic harmo-z: perhaps cognate with Sanskrit śrama* labour, toil. 1. a. Evil (physical or otherwise) as done to or suffered by some person or thing; hurt, injury, damage, mischief. Often in the set phrase ‘to do more harm than good’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] burstc1000 harmOE scatheOE teenOE evil healc1175 waningc1175 hurt?c1225 quede?c1225 balec1275 damage1300 follyc1300 grill13.. ungain13.. torferc1325 eviltyc1330 wem1338 impairment1340 marring1357 unhend1377 sorrowc1380 pairingc1384 pairmentc1384 mischiefc1385 offencec1385 appairment1388 hindering1390 noyinga1398 bresta1400 envya1400 wemminga1400 gremec1400 wilc1400 blemishing1413 lesion?a1425 nocument?a1425 injuryc1430 mischieving1432 hindrance1436 detrimenta1440 ill1470 untroth1470 diversity1484 remordc1485 unhappinessc1485 grudge1491 wriguldy-wrag?1520 danger1530 dishort1535 perishment1540 wreaka1542 emperishment1545 impeachment1548 indemnity1556 impair1568 spoil1572 impeach1575 interestc1575 emblemishing1583 mishap1587 endamagement1593 blemishment1596 mischievance1600 damnificationa1631 oblesion1656 mishanter1754 vitiation1802 mar1876 jeel1887 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] harmOE tinsela1340 damagec1374 offensiona1382 pairmentc1384 wrongc1384 offencec1385 wrackc1407 lesion?a1425 ruin1467 prejudicec1485 domager1502 qualm1513 jacture1515 imblemishment1529 perishment1540 impeachment1548 blame1549 dommagie1556 execution1581 damagement1603 sufferancea1616 stroy1682 murder1809 punishment1839 OE Beowulf 1892 No he mid hearme of hliðes nosan gæs[tas] grette. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1101 His men mycel to hearme æfre gedydon. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 277 To gret harm to al þys lond, the gode kyng he slou. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2578 Þay mowe noȝt her y-wys hem-selue fram herme saue. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 537 Thou shalt have no harme truely. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 4898 Do ham na arme in na way. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iv. 23 Sche doth non harm to no man, but ȝif men don hire harm. 1442 Searchers' Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1888) 18 Ye same place has taken mikel herm for defaut of a gutter. ?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. A.ii All that hath yonge people, good maners let them to lerne To theyr elders w^t gentyl condicions, let do nor say no harme. a1586 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxv. 59 Ȝe knaw quhat hairme he hes susteind. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 62 What harme was done by us amongst the Infidels, we were not assured. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Caterpillars..do very great harme. 1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 16 Harm watch, harm catch. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. x. 89 I meant no harm. 1809 Q. Rev. May 305 The story should be suppressed altogether, as one which will do more harm than good. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 44 Aware that the divulging of the truth might do harm. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxix. 573 I should have done you more harm than good, at first. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 331 Rains doing harm instead of good. 1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. xxix These rare cases actually do more harm than good. b. With a and plural. An evil done or sustained; an injury, a loss. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] loathc900 harmOE teenOE griefc1330 injurec1374 injuryc1384 truitc1390 spitea1400 wrethec1400 supprise1442 trouble1463 damage1470 objectionc1475 interess1489 tort1532 mishanter1754 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed misdeedeOE murderOE harmOE un-i-selthlOE ungooda1250 wickednessa1325 illa1340 untetchea1375 villainy1377 wretchednessc1380 misdoingc1460 malefice1591 turpitude1597 meschantery1634 misactiona1667 naughtiness1789 wrongdoing1874 OE Genesis 759 Ealle synt uncre hearmas gewrecene. c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 59 Ær ðu muȝe þoliȝen alle harmes and scames and bismeres. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 349 Oþer bodili harmes. ?1463 R. Cutler in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 260 Of ij harmys þe leste is to be take. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. viii. 384 Wise is he whome other mens harmes can cause to take heede. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 263 The inconceivable Harms he did to Christendom. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Poet's Tale xix, in Tales Wayside Inn 198 They..from your harvests keep a hundred harms. c. out of harm's way: Out of the way of doing or of sustaining injury. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > out of the way of (doing) harm out of harm's waya1661 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 44 Some great persons..have been made Sheriffes to keep them out of harms way. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 207 He took care to keep himself out of harms way. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 136. ⁋4 People send Children..to School to keep them out of Harm's way. 1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. I. xiv. 333 They had..migrated in time out of harm's way. †2. Grief, sorrow, pain, trouble, distress, affliction. Also with a and plural. to make harms (quot. c1480): to make lamentation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] sorec888 teeneOE sorrowOE workOE wrakeOE careOE gramec1000 harmOE howc1000 trayOE woweOE angec1175 derfnessc1175 sytec1175 unwinc1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 derf?c1225 grief?c1225 misease?c1225 misliking?c1225 ofthinkingc1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 pinec1275 distress1297 grievancea1300 penancea1300 cumbermentc1300 languorc1300 cumbering1303 were1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 woea1325 painc1330 tribulationc1330 illa1340 threst1340 constraintc1374 troublenessc1380 afflictiona1382 bruisinga1382 miseasetya1382 pressurec1384 exercisec1386 miscomfortc1390 mislikea1400 smarta1400 thronga1400 balec1400 painfulnessc1400 troublancec1400 smartness?c1425 painliness1435 perplexity?a1439 penalty?1462 calamity1490 penality1496 cumber?a1513 sussy1513 tribule1513 afflict?1529 vexation of spirit1535 troublesomeness1561 hoe1567 grievedness1571 tribulance1575 languishment1576 thrall1578 tine1590 languorment1593 aggrievedness1594 obturbation1623 afflictedness1646 erumny1657 pathos1684 shock1705 dree1791 vex1815 wrungnessa1875 dukkha1886 thinkache1892 sufferation1976 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction teeneOE harmOE sourc1000 trayOE angec1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 misease?c1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 sorenessc1275 grievancea1300 cumbermentc1300 cumbering1303 thro1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 encumbrancec1330 tribulationc1330 threst1340 mischiefa1375 pressc1375 unhend1377 miseasetya1382 angernessc1390 molestc1390 troublancec1400 notea1425 miseasenessc1450 cumber?a1513 tribule1513 unseasonableness?1523 troublesomeness1561 tribulance1575 tine1590 trials and tribulations1591 pressure1648 difficulty1667 hell to pay1758 dree1791 trial and tribulation1792 Queer Street1811 Sturm und Drang1857 a thin time1924 shit1929 crap1932 shtook1936 OE Genesis 754 Eac is hearm gode, modsorg gemacod. a1300 Cursor Mundi 24089 Þis harm mi hert it held sa hard. c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 578 I wende verraily That he had felt as muche harm as I Whan þat I herde hym speke and saugh his hewe. c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 68 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 111 Mony ane of hir kine..folowit hyr, makand harmys. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 197 Sic hauie harme sall happin to ȝour hart. 1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 47 He lays aside his Arms, for harms to feed his humour. †3. Pity, a pity. (Cf. French dommage.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] > cause or ground for pity pityc1325 harmc1430 c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4230 It was harme it wanted oght. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 44 Sobbit full soir that harme wes for to heir. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as harm-doer, harm-doing, harm-taking; harm-averting, harm-eschewing adjs. ΚΠ c1220 Bestiary 389 Husebondes hire haten for hire harm dedes. 1386 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) VII. 526/2 Þair sall not be at þa Rydings no Harme doynges. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 41 Them..þ^t ben harmedoers & loueth falshode & desepcion. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxiv. 11) To live quietly..without any harmetaking. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 18 I judge they may passe without harme doing to our cause. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 102 Harm-averting songs. Draft additions September 2019 no harm, no foul: (Basketball) used to express the principle that contact which does not impede an opponent does not constitute a foul; (hence more generally (chiefly U.S.)) used to indicate that a mistake or instance of misconduct should be excused if no real damage has been done.Compare no ——, no —— at no adj. 1d(a). ΚΠ 1954 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 21 Oct. 12/1 In Dr. Carlson's opinion if the rule ‘no harm, no foul’ were followed, a great game would be made greater. 1968 Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune 13 Feb. 13/1 Athletes..told of receiving free gifts, discounts, and part-time jobs from merchants... ‘I didn't think there's any real harm in what the merchants did... The merchants weren't underhanded about it.’ No harm, no foul. 2018 @Bronsays 20 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My mistake... Late. Tired. I read it the wrong way, I guess. But no harm, no foul. We're good. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). harmv. Brit. /hɑːm/, U.S. /hɑrm/ Forms: Old English hearmian, Middle English haremen, hearmen, hærmen, Middle English herme, Middle English hermien, Middle English–1600s harme, Middle English harmi, harmy, 1500s arme, Middle English– harm. Etymology: Old English hearmian , < hearm harm n.: compare Old High German harmjan, harmen, hermen to calumniate, injure. 1. To do harm (to); to injure (physically or otherwise); to hurt, damage. Originally intransitive: to be hurtful, with dative (like Latin nocēre), which was sometimes in Middle English expressed by to, but generally became a simple object, making the verb transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to werdec725 wema1000 evilc1000 harmc1000 hinderc1000 teenOE scathec1175 illc1220 to wait (one) scathec1275 to have (…) wrong1303 annoya1325 grievec1330 wrong1390 to do violence to (also unto)a1393 mischievea1393 damagea1400 annulc1425 trespass1427 mischief1437 poisonc1450 injurea1492 damnify1512 prejudge1531 misfease1571 indemnify1583 bane1601 debauch1633 lese1678 empoison1780 misguggle1814 nobble1860 strafe1915 to dick up1951 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 140 Gif ðu hine forgitst, hit hearmað þe sylfum and na Gode. c1000 in Leg. Rood 105 Þeah þe hit hearmige sumum. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 To hermen alle monnen. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 53 Þe hwise askið weðer ani þing harmi mare wimmon þenne deð hire echȝe. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 23 To oþren ha wyle harmy..to miszigge to ham þet he wyle harmi. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 248 And holy churche þorw hem worth harmed for euere. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxv Protractyng of tyme onely, hurted and harmed the Kyng. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 153 Harme him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer. View more context for this quotation 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 77 (note) An High Elme..in the midst of a Garden..harms all round about it. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 578 He that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 291 When a man has no sense he is harmed by courage. 2. absol. To do harm or injury. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > do harm [verb (intransitive)] woundc897 to do or work wough?c1225 to do (work, make) scathec1275 annoy1340 nuisec1350 harm1362 scathe1488 to make violence to (also on, etc.)1529 prank1530 damnify1621 endamage1635 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 136 And hongeþ him for hate þat harmede neuere. 1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. x. sig. Bv She can no more harme than can a shee ape. 1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 90 in Purple Island As arrows..Where they are meant, will surely harm, And if they hit, wound deep and dead. 3. intransitive. To take harm. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [verb (intransitive)] grievec1350 nuisec1350 unprofita1425 disavailc1425 prejudicate1565 harm1916 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 224 The men is fresh, too, and won't harm for a bit of exercise. Derivatives harmed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmed or affected detrimentally annoyedc1330 infectc1384 palledc1390 harmedc1440 hinderedc1440 weakened1548 maimed1570 interessed1598 crazy1601 impaired1611 wronged1632 appaired1637 deboist1641 sunken1642 vitiated1660 crippled1674 wounded1692 etiolated1847 injured1857 murdered1876 dicked-up1967 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 228/1 Harmyd, dampnificatus. ˈharming adj. ΚΠ 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 149 They temper the harming force of the colde of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OEv.c1000
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