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单词 arrant
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arrantadj.

Brit. /ˈarənt/, /ˈarn̩t/, U.S. /ˈɛrənt/
Forms: Also 1500s arraunt, 1500s–1600s arrand(e.
Etymology: A variant of errant adj., ‘wandering, vagrant, vagabond,’ which from its frequent use in such expressions as arrant thief , became an intensive, ‘thorough, notorious, downright,’ especially, from its original associations, with opprobrious names. For the vowel-change compare arrand = errand , Harry =Herry , Henry , far n. =earlier fer, etc.
1. Wandering, itinerant, vagrant; esp. in knight arrant, bailiff arrant; in which the etymological errant adj. is now alone used.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective]
walkingc1390
arrant1550
ambulatory1604
itinerating1611
itinerary1617
stray1620
strolling1621
itineral1627
itineratea1628
perambulatory1650
peregrinatory1773
obambulatory1855
perambulant1865
perambulating1926
c1400 Circumcis. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 97 To bryng the lost schepe ageyn..That was errawnt, ydyl, and in vayne.]
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bi (title) Of Baylife Arrantes.
1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) vii. x With that knyght wyll I juste, for I see that he is a knyght arraunt.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 219 Arrant Preachers, humming out a common-place or two.
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 18 Bayliffe arrant. Fee.—4l. 11s. 3d.
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Bailiffs Errant are those whom the Sheriff appoints to go up and down the County to serve Writs, etc.]
2. In thief errant, arrant thief [= robber] originally an outlawed robber roving about the country, a freebooter, bandit, highwayman; hence, a public, notorious, professed robber, a ‘common thief,’ an undisguised, manifest, out-and-out thief.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun]
brigand1421
snaphance1539
thief errant1553
freebooter1570
filibuster1591
bandit1594
Robin Hood1597
mosser1651
moss-trooper1651
free-rider1821
cateran1870
c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 120 An outlawe or a thef erraunt. [See the whole passage.]
1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 362 The most errande thefe and mercilesse murtherer.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 407 There is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe.
1637 J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath 13 The arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem.
1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Wks. (1755) VI. ii. 174 Every servant an arrant [1745: errant] thief as to victuals and drink.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 247 Who, like errant thieves, could not hold up their heads in an honest house.
3.
a. Hence: Notorious, manifest, downright, thorough-paced, unmitigated. Extended from thief to traitor, knave, rebel, coward, usurer; after 1575 widely used as an opprobrious intensive, with fool, dunce, ass, idiot, hypocrite, Pharisee, Papist, Puritan, infidel, atheist, blasphemer, and so on through the whole vocabulary of abuse.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous person > [adjective]
flagitiousc1384
arrant1393
errant1393
scarleta1643
atrocious1772
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person
arrant1393
errant1393
starka1470
unconscionable1591
omnipotent1596
incarnative1598
run devil1786
incarnate1820
blithering1889
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 307 An erraunt vsurer.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxx. f. xxxiv Beynge a errant Traytoure.
1538 Bp. C. Tunstall in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xliv. 338 Reginald Pole, comen of a noble blood, and thereby the more errant traitor.
1553 Procl. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. vi. 10 The most arrande traytour Syr John Dudley.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C2v Why thou arrant dunce shal I neuer make thee good scholler.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 128 Hee's an arrant knaue.
1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 316 Which she to Sots and arrant Ideots threw.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 391 A nobleman therefore in some likelyhood..[is] a proud foole, & an arrant asse.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xiii. 168 Either an arrant Infidel or horrid Blasphemer.
1679 R. Mansell Exact & True Narr. Late Popish Intrigue Addr. Who may prove good tools, though errant Fools.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 319 They are errant Cowards.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. iii. 132 The arrantest Villain that ever walked upon two Legs. View more context for this quotation
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 34 As arrant a crew of scapegraces as ever were collected together.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. v. 188 The inhabitants of solitary houses are often most arrant cowards.
b. transferred of things, i.e. opprobrious deeds and qualities, theft, presumption, lie, device, etc.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous thing > [adjective]
errant1393
arrant1639
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated
properc1430
arrant1639
erranta1720
defecated1796
unredeemed1799
blank1854
first class1868
prize1903
mucking1917
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 285 It were arrant presumption for Flesh to prescribe God his way.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 10 [They] cover the most arrant Atheism under the mask and shadow of a Deity.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxiv. 239 I am afraid I have written arrant nonsense.
1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 327 This hill, till about the year 995, was an errant desert..and uninhabitable.
1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 480 Little better than arrant trifling.
4. Without opprobrious force: Thorough, downright, genuine, complete, ‘regular’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real
soothc888
soothlyc888
soothfastc1175
germanec1384
truea1398
sickera1400
upright?a1500
uncounterfeita1542
righteous1543
legitimate1551
truepennya1556
arrant1570
uncounterfeited1571
real1573
current1578
genuinal1599
unforged1610
unpretended1611
legitime1614
unabusinga1628
Lubish1632
genuine1639
undissembled1651
undissimulate1652
ingenuine1661
infallacious1677
real live1684
unfalsified1688
unmistaken1694
pukka1776
undissimulated1776
unassumed1818
uncynical1824
Simon Pure1834
sure-enough1837
unsimulated1840
straight-out1848
true blue1852
veritable1862
really (and) truly1864
authentic1868
true-metal1868
kosher1896
twenty-four carat1900
honest to goodness1905
echt1916
dinky-di1918
McCoy1928
twenty-two carat1962
right1969
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Bivv/1 Arrant, grandis, magnus.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 193 Good and arrant Terriers..to make the foxe or Badgerd start the soner.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 95 He that shall behold its grain..will never scruple to pronounce it arrant wood.
1704 N. Rowe Ulysses Epil. 15 They Like arrant Huswives, rise by Break of Day.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 59 A tight brisk little man, with the air of an arrant old bachelor.
5.
a. With the opprobrious force transferred to the adjective: Thoroughly bad, good for nothing, rascally.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective]
forcouthc888
goodlesseOE
undoughtya1225
voidc1380
bare1399
stark naught1528
worthilessa1542
queer1567
worthless1573
hilding1577
baggage1580
arrant1581
offal1588
lorel1590
losel1601
ragamuffin1602
loselled1606
loselly1611
valuelessa1616
ragamuffa1626
good-for-nothing1706
ne'er-do-well1773
rotten1813
neat1824
scamping1832
good-for-naught1835
no good1838
scampish1847
ne'er-do-wellish1890
no good1904
upter1919
never-do-well1933
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective]
pautenerc1330
palliard1484
varletc1485
knavisha1492
limmer?a1513
limmerful?a1513
briberous?1536
patchingc1555
rascal1566
roguing1566
roguish1575
arrant1581
skybala1585
rascally1586
land-loping1587
shag-ragc1590
Scanderbegging1593
Scanderbeg1601
rogorous1609
rogueya1627
scoundrel1643
schelmish1654
skelm1673
rapscallionly1699
rapscallion1711
scoundrelly1790
furciferous1823
scapegrace1830
1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 25 Her beautie had so entangled her arrant hoste.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 6 So forward to accuse, to debase, to reuile..as the arrantest fellow in a country?
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. i Mine's as arrant a Widow-Mother, to her poor Child, as any's in England.
1708 A. Pope Corr. 1 Nov. (1956) I. 51 You are not so arrant a Critick, [of the Modern Poets] as to damn them..without hearing.
1761 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas vii. iii It was easy to see through all his piety that he was an arrant author at the bottom.
b. as predicate
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1806 J. Milton Prose Wks. I. 165 The authority of some synodal canons, which are now arrant [1641 no warrant] to us.
6. as n. A person of no reputation, a good-for-nothing.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]
ribalda1250
brethelingc1275
filec1300
waynouna1350
waster1352
lorel1362
losel1362
land-leaper1377
javelc1400
leftc1400
lorerc1400
shackerellc1420
brethel1440
never-thrift1440
ne'er-thrifta1450
never-thrivinga1450
nebulona1475
breelc1485
naughty pack?1534
brathel1542
unsel155.
pelf1551
wandrel?1567
land-loper1570
scald1575
baggage1594
arrant1605
good-for-nothing1611
hilding1611
vauneant1621
idle-pack1624
thimble-maker1654
never-do-well1664
ne'er-be-good1675
shack1682
vagabond1686
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
blackguard1732
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
rap1742
good-for-naught1773
rip1781
mauvais sujet1793
scamp1808
waffie1808
loose fish1809
ne'er-do-good1814
hard bargain1818
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
rodney1877
git1939
no-hoper1944
piss artist1962
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person
brethelingc1275
filec1300
dogc1330
ribald1340
waynouna1350
waster1352
lorel1362
losel1362
land-leaper1377
triflera1382
brothelc1390
javelc1400
leftc1400
lorerc1400
shackerellc1420
brethel1440
never-thrift1440
vagrant1444
ne'er-thrifta1450
never-thrivinga1450
nebulona1475
breelc1485
naughty pack?1534
brathel1542
carrion1547
slim1548
unsel155.
pelf1551
shifterc1562
rag1566
wandrel?1567
land-loper1570
nothing-worth1580
baggage1594
roly-poly1602
bash-rag1603
arrant1605
ragabash?1609
flabergullion1611
hilding1611
hard bargain1612
slubberdegullion1612
vauneant1621
knick-knacker1622
idle-pack1624
slabberdegullion1653
thimble-maker1654
whiffler1659
never-do-well1664
good-for-nought1671
ne'er-be-good1675
shack1682
vagabond1686
shabaroon1699
shag-bag1699
houndsfoot1710
ne'er-do-well1737
trumpery1738
rap1742
hallion1789
scamp1808
waffie1808
ne'er-do-good1814
vaurien1829
sculpin1834
shicer1846
good-for-nothing1847
wastrel1847
scallywag1848
shack-bag1855
beat1865
toe-rag1875
rodney1877
toe-ragger1896
low-lifer1902
punk1904
lowlife1909
ringtail1916
git1939
no-hoper1944
schlub1950
piss artist1962
dead leg1964
1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie sig. C Her good man, who should be sent of Errandes, while she were with her Arrants.
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