单词 | land-damn |
释义 | † land-damnv. Obsolete. rare—1. transitive. ? To make a hell on earth for (a person). The sense is uncertain; the text may be corrupt. The alleged survival of the word in dialects, with the sense ‘to abuse with rancour’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.), appears to be imperfectly authenticated. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 145 You are abus'd, and by some putter on, That will be damn'd for't: would I knew the Villaine, I would Land-damne him. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < v.a1616 |
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