单词 | humble wise |
释义 | > as lemmashumble wise b. With general adjectives, often forming an equivalent of -ly suffix2, as †humble wise = humbly, despiteful-wise = despitefully: in later use hyphenated or as one word.Cf. Middle High German glîcher wîse (German gleicherweise), German glücklicherweise, irrtümlicherweise, törichterweise, zufälligerweise, etc.; normaler weise, etc. ΚΠ OE Beowulf 1865 Ic þa leode wat..fæste geworhte, æghwæs untæle ealde wisan. c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 480 The nyghtes longe Encressen double wise the peynes stronge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21277 Þe queles er draun diuerse wise. 1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 129/1 Service, the which the seid Galiard..had doon dyvers wise to your goode grace. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 932 Thus may thow, and thow will, wirk the best wise. 1592 H. Constable Diana i. i. sig. B1 Humble wise To thee my sighes in verse I sacrifise. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 157 It was formed hooked-wise. 1866 Church & State Rev. 11 May 298/2 It is no dull good-boy book, to be taken teetotalwise. 1876 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets vi. 220 ‘The Princess’ and ‘The Idylls of the King’, are written Dorian-wise. 1903 R. Kipling S. Afr. in Five Nations vi She..Treated them despiteful-wise. < as lemmas |
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