| 单词 | home to oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome to oneself b. home to oneself: to one's senses; to a state of self-control or self-awareness. Chiefly in to come home to oneself. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adverb] > to one's normal consciousness home to oneself1561 the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adverb] > to self-possession home to oneself1561 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xii. f. 75v Chastisement of wordes sufficeth..which may not harden nor confounde the synner, but bryng hym home to hymselfe. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth xxi. 148 That great King..now comming home to himselfe..complaines, that [etc.]. 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xxxii. 48 Manasseh..came home to himself, and destroyed the profane Altars, he had erected. 1841 tr. Miniature Romances from German 191 We found no end to these daydreams of the heart, till we came home to ourselves in the world of reality. 1894 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 166/1 While he spoke, it was as if I came home to myself. 1949 B. Willey Nineteenth-cent. Stud. viii. 232 We must drag him back from this enchantment, break its spell, and bring him home to himself. 1994 M. Kinder Mastering your Moods (1995) ii. vii. 157 It turned out that this self-knowledge was more important to him than intense striving to make money. He came home to himself. < as lemmas |
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