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单词 as wise as before
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as wise as before
(a) Informed or aware of something specified or implied. Now only in such phrases as none the wiser, as wise as before = knowing no more than before (i.e., usually, nothing) about the matter.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > lacking information
none the wiserc1175
unformedc1540
untold1590
uninformed1597
unascertained1628
unnewseda1644
a stranger to1694
unapprised1728
tidingless1822
unenlightened1829
out of the loop1976
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2279 Forr þi wollde ȝho ben wis. Off þatt. þurrh godess enngell.
c1220 Bestiary 799 In water ȝe is wis of heuekes come.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 372 Þis is a longe lessoun,..and litel am I þe wyser.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 424 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 41 Þat god wyss þame wald make peteris banis quhilk war of þai, and quhilk war pa[u]lis banis alsa.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 580 Thai maid him wys off all that suttell cace.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 193 He may be ransomde, And we neuer the wiser.
1616 Withals' Dict. 574 Obscurum per obscurius, I am as wise as I was before.
1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes viii. 8. 156 The Church was made wyse of the imperfection of the Olde Covenant.
1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 2 Mar. (1948) II. 630 I went to day into the City to see Pat Rolt, who lodges with a City Cozen, a daughter of Coz Cleve (you are much the wiser).
1714 J. Swift Let. to Miss Vanhomrigh 8 June The pretender, or duke of Cambridge, may both be landed, and I never the wiser.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 200 Messrs. Blathers and Duff came back again as wise as they went.
1889 Cent. Mag. July 343/1 Not one whit the wiser of the world than when he left home.
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