| 单词 | in sadness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (good, sober, serious) sadness in (good, sober, serious) sadness: in earnest, seriously. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adverb] highlyOE deeplyc1300 solemnlya1325 sadlya1375 soberly1382 demurelyc1400 sadc1400 seriouslyc1425 solemnya1470 murely1474 solemnedlyc1480 solenny1480 in (good, sober, serious) sadness1545 gravely1553 staidly1571 solemniouslya1578 solidly1632 in sad earnest1637 ponderously1637 in jest-earnest1642 in all seriousness1679 joking apart1745 unhumorously1768 solidly1799 in sober earnest1836 mirthlessly1853 votively1857 smilelessly1869 unmirthfully1872 unsmilingly1879 inhumorously1898 soberingly1923 straightfacedly1977 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 48v But in good sadnesse Toxophile thus you se. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. iii. sig. F.iij I haue nought to them, nor they to me in sadnesse. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (Grosart) II. 245 Thou hast borrowed aboue twenty phrases and epithites from mee, which in sober sadnesse thou makst vse of as thy owne. a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) v. i. 59 Pray, in sadness say; What is the Gentleman? 1696 S. Sewall Diary 13 Oct. (1973) I. 357 Seem'd to be in good sober sadness. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. ii In serious sadness. 1809 Ld. Byron Let. 16 July (1973) I. 215 But, in sober sadness, any thing is better than England. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. ix. 182 But, prithee, tell me in sadness, dost thou discover any thing..which may argue any suspicion of ill usage? 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 323 ‘Ah towd him i' good sadn'ss’ = in downright earnest. 1929 Musical Q. 15 565 But, in sober sadness, a tango born of the exotic folk-spirit deserves equal praise with any folk-song of Brittany. 1950 ‘P. Woodruff’ Island of Chamba x. 159 I will go quietly home. And I tell you Charles, in sober sadness, I am thankful to God I have no life to lose but my own. < as lemmas |
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