| 单词 | in sober earnest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin sober earnest b. In the phrases in sober earnest or †in sober sadness.Skelton Magnyf. 682 uses Sober Sadnesse as a name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > [adverb] > gravely, seriously, or solemnly weightily1552 soberly1579 in sober sadness1593 aggravatingly1661 in sober earnest1836 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 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. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §108 I say..in sober sadnes, that thou and all such..ought to obserue it well. 1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant 202 In sober sadness, it is enough to make any serious Christian abhor your Church. 1819 J. Keats Let. 21 Sept. (1931) II. 426 Isabella is what I should call..‘A weak-sided Poem’ with an amusing sober-sadness about it. 1836 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. xviii. 425 In sober earnest, I wish that we could have given you more time to think about it. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind i. 8 I have been startled by hearing it..urged in sober earnest very far outside the range of savage life. < as lemmas |
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