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单词 in peace
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in peace
a. Freedom from external disturbance, interference, or perturbation, esp. as a condition of an individual. Frequently in in peace. Also (more emphatically) peace and quiet (also peace and quietness).
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun]
sibeOE
grithc1000
saughtc1100
grithfulness?c1225
peacec1230
peaceablenessa1382
paxc1390
sweetness and light1927
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > as condition in which an individual is
peacec1230
quieta1398
repose?1543
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 89 Ierusalem..bitacneþ ancre hus. for þrinne ne þearf ha seon bute peis [?c1225 Cleo. grið] ane.
c1300 St. Dunstan (Laud) 70 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 21 Seint Dunston cam hom a-ȝen:..And hadde his Abbeye al in pays.
a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 21 Þenne myhte vch mon Boþ riden & gon In pes wiþ-oute vyhte.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xi. 21 Whanne a strong armed man kepith his hows, alle thingis that he weldith ben in pees.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 181 (MED) Whan þe lymes beeþ wel arayed, [etc.]`.þan haþ þe man good þees [read pees] and quiete and is in good heele and reste.
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. Lear 659 in G. Haselbach & G. Hartmann Festschrift (1957) 231 (MED) So Leir recouert hys dignite And regnyd in pese yieres thre.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxiii. 156 The poure comons were in pees and in rest.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere Pref. sig. Dd iii.v To breke the peace and quiete of his cuntre.
1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Matius in Panoplie Epist. 115 The residue of my lyfe will I lead in Rhodes, where I may possesse peace and quietnes.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. ii. 6 Sometymes..the worde Peace is taken for Protection, or defence: as where M. Bracton calleth the Writtes of Protection, Breuia de pace.
1669 J. Fletcher Island Princess iv. v That I should give this vantage to mine enemie, The enemie to my peace; forsake my faith?
1730 Earl of Oxford in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 25 Enjoying the fruit of his victory, peace and quietness.
a1771 T. Gray Child in Wks. (1884) I. 127 Let him sleep in peace.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. ix. 193 The baronet..is not unlikely to marry again; he is quite fool enough. If he does, however, they will leave me in peace . View more context for this quotation
1859 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 6 I shall breakfast here in peace, and quietness.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 9 And pass his days in peace among his own.
1865 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. III. 301 It often happens that a man, turbulent in his youth, will make great sacrifices to procure peace and quiet in his old age.
1907 A. Bierce in Cosmopolitan Dec. 188/2 In the middle of the night something—some malign power bent upon the wrecking of my peace forever—caused me to open my eyes and sit up.
1933 H. G. Wells Shape of Things to Come ii. 153 The man who wanted to be left alone in peace..was pressed to pay his tribute to the gang.
1993 Teleworker Nov. 27/2 He thrives on peace and quiet and finds work hellish when his live-in girlfriend takes a day off.
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