单词 | i ween |
释义 | > as lemmasI ween h. used parenthetically (esp. in I ween) rather than as governing the sentence. In verse often a mere tag. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > as I suppose [phrase] methinkseOE I weenc1175 afraid1530 I fancy1672 dare say1749 c1175 Lamb. Hom. I. 157 Eiðer of þisse teres schedde þe apostel leste ich wene [L. fudit fortasse apostolus] þa þe he seide [etc.]. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 156 Nis ich wene nan mon. þet [etc.]. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 655 Þre dayes þer-biforn, i wene, Et he no mete. c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 278 Of royall rychesse wantyd she noone I wene. c1500 Nut-brown Maid xxviii Ye shape some wyle, me to begyle, and stele fro me I wene. 1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. (1859) 47 And do all they themselves, ween you, agree well together? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 741 Nor turnd I weene Adam from his fair Spouse. View more context for this quotation 1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto iv He, I ween, is no sacred personage. 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 355 A panegyric rhyme, I ween, Even as I was he shor'd me. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iii. 58 See what tidings that horn tells of—to announce, I ween, some hership and robbery. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. v. 86 And never, I ween well, had she greater need of true friends than now. 1842 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Penance! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 91 A stalwart knight, I ween, was he. a1873 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 251 There will be a greater harvest still, we ween. < as lemmas |
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