单词 | looking back |
释义 | > as lemmaslooking back C2. With following adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs (see look v.), as looking back, looking out, etc. Occasionally attributive. Cf. looking forward n. ΚΠ a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 119 (MED) Euel accidentis..as..þe flix of þe wombe, or ellis crokidnes, or ellis lokynge asquynt [L. obliquitas] of þe iȝen. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EE Whiche..for ones lokyng backewarde, was tourned in to a salte stone. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Despectio, a lokynge downewarde. 1603 T. Powell (title) Welch Bayte to spare Prouender. Or, A looking backe vpon the Times past. a1699 J. Fraser Memoirs (1738) iii. 66 There remained a secret and quiet Hope Things would be well, and a Looking up to him. 1788 W. Huntington Servant of Lord 39 Next comes a dreadful expectation of some evident token of perdition; and there is a looking for it, and a looking out after it. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 361 Which evidence you owed To some slight weariness, some looking-off Or start-away. 1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xi. 183 A dog would..squat upon his looking-out place. 1914 H. Stuck Ten Thousand Miles with Dog Sled v. 126 He did it ill, with constant exasperating stoppings and lookings-back. 1921 W. Deeping House of Adventure (1922) xxx. 220 Their sacrament was a little silence, a pause, a looking backwards and forwards, a holding of hands, a gentle generous emotion. 2008 Poetry Rev. Winter 117 Greenfields locates the heart of things—of desire, of looking-back, of the past, of love—in how language is reminted by the process of writing of its fondest desires. < as lemmas |
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