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单词 as or so very a
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as or so very a
b. With a inserted between the adjective and the noun qualified, esp. as or so very a. Cf. so adv. and conj. 14e. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter
to the hard ——c1400
as or so very a1560
a fool (also man, etc.) in print1600
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1824
dyed in the wool1830
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > in emphatic use
very1384
as or so very a1560
veritable1831
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccv There can no man be imagined so very a coward or so barbarouse.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Adæque miser, euen as very a wretch.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14 For often times sene, no more very a knaue, than he that doth counterfet most to be graue.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 352 I will onely content myself to protest that you were never so very a poet, as when you spake of me.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 July (1974) VIII. 364 He is as very a wencher as can be.
1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule iii. i. 1047 Thou cam'st to find as very a Madman As ever rav'd in Chains.
1739 A. Hill in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) I. 36 I was so very a boy when I suffered that light piece of work to be published, that [etc.].
1748 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) I. 182 A thing..so very a nothing in itself.
1804 H. Martin Helen of Glenross IV. 118 So very a soldier.
1828 W. Scott Tapestr. Chamb. ⁋47 I sank back in a swoon, as very a victim to panic terror as ever was a village girl.
1844 C. MacFarlane Camp of Refuge (1897) v. 77 Without knowing..how very a prisoner she is in her own manor-house.
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