单词 | ipsissima verba |
释义 | ipsissima verban. The precise words used by a writer or speaker. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun] > accuracy of statement > exact words ipsissima verba1808 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 40 Last night I was in too much haste to look for the ipsissima verba of Fuller. 1834 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 151 We..shall, therefore,..treat the reader to our author's ipsissima verba. 1886 Athenæum 13 Nov. 630/1 An assurance that the extracts contain the ipsissima verba of the poet would be..valuable. 1888 W. James Let. 2 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 403 Your ipsissima verba of latest date were what I required. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 May 416/2 An undergraduate named Brauer,..who..seems to have taken down the ipsissima verba of Kant with almost impeccable accuracy. 1937 Mind 46 302 Mr. Paton's interpretations..where they exceed Kant's ipsissima verba..seem to be careful and reasonable. 1961 A. Huxley Let. 21 Feb. (1969) 904 D. H. L[awrence]'s ipsissima verba are: ‘The hot stinging centrality of the goose on the cold shifting flux of mud and waters.’ 1972 J. A. W. Bennett Piers Plowman p. ix Some of my notes may retain vestiges of his ipsissima verba. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1808 |
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