单词 | i promise you |
释义 | > as lemmasI promise you 3. transitive and intransitive. colloquial. With subordinate clause as object or parenthetically within or after a statement: to convey assurance of some fact; to assert confidently or emphatically; to declare. Chiefly with indirect object in I promise you: ‘I assure you’, ‘I tell you plainly’. extracted from promisev. a. In assurance of a statement relating to the present or the past. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (transitive)] > a person sicker1297 ensurec1385 behightc1386 promise1469 insurea1500 warranta1529 resolve1567 the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > confidently promitc1422 promise1469 1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 542 He losyth sore hys tyme her, I promyse yow. 1535 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 74 The comyssioners, I promyse you, have been very necligent. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. ii. 43 I doe not like thy looke I promise thee. View more context for this quotation 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 37 The Nights, I promise you, are very cold. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 366 For I promise I long for it. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. i. 169 I promise thee it is what I have desired. View more context for this quotation a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 137 Sir Peter, you are come in good time, I promise you; for we had just given you over. 1841 F. E. Paget Tales of Village (1852) 466 I promise you I'm preciously tired already. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Beach of Falesa iii. 71 The certificate was wrote by Case, and it's a dandy piece of literature, I promise you. 1969 ‘C. Fremlin’ Possession i. 9 I know his mother, and she's frightful! She really is, Clare, I promise you: she's ghastly! 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 76 I promise you, there is nothing in your beliefs or unbeliefs that can't serve as the basis for an effective and deeply satisfying Christian ministry. b. With reference to the future, as a strong assertion of one's intention.Sometimes implying a threat of something disadvantageous or unpleasant. Now also in elliptical use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (transitive)] speakc900 sayOE sayOE tell?a1160 to put forth?c1225 posea1325 allegec1330 declarec1330 exponec1380 to bring fortha1382 expounda1382 terminec1384 allaya1387 express1386 proport1387 purport1389 cough1393 generalize?a1425 deliverc1454 expremec1470 to show forth1498 promisea1500 term1546 to set forward1560 attribute1563 to throw out1573 quote1575 dictate1599 rendera1616 preport1616 enunciate1623 remonstrate1625 state1642 pronunciate1652 annunciate1763 present1779 enounce1805 report1842 constate1865 lodge1885 outen1951 a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1603 (MED) He shall not spede, I yow promysse. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 17 I promys you I schal never pretermyt occasyon..of helpyng my cuntrey. 1694 J. Crowne Married Beau iii. 36 I promise you, I will not spare my self; I'll live in everlasting Grief and Shame. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. x. 55 I will be decent, I promise you. 1777 C. Dibdin Quaker i. i. 3 You won't get a lamb out of our fold, I promise you. 1825 C. Thirlwall tr. J. L. Tieck Pictures 80 Well, I promise you, you shall find I do not come again. 1870 J. G. Austin Shadow of Moloch Mountain li. 133 I will finish it—I promise you. 1928 Z. N. Hurston Let. 15 Oct. in Life in Lett. (2002) 129 You are going to have plenty of editing to do after this expedition is over, I promise you. 1955 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 23 Apr. 30/2 But remember, just one drink and off to your beddie-byes. Promise? 1986 Punch 16 July 31/1 I eventually gave in and let Flora wear my jacket... She'd look after it, promise. 1990 G. Naylor Better than Life 102 And I promise you, that shot's not going to come off. < as lemmas |
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