单词 | loved be god |
释义 | > as lemmasloved be God (b) thank God (also † God thank: see thank n. 4a). Also God be thanked, God be praised ( praise God, praised be God), † loved be God (cf. love v.2 1a), etc. [After post-classical Latin Deo gratias, lit. ‘thanks to God’ (10th cent. as interjection), and similar phrases; compare Anglo-Norman merci Deu, Deu merci and Middle French Dieu merci, interjections (12th cent.). Compare Middle Dutch gotdanc, godanc, interjection (Dutch goddank).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [adverb] > thanking divine providence God-thankc888 God be thanked1600 thank God1753 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 9 Uncuð hu longe ðær swæ gelærede biscepas sien, swæ swæ nu Gode ðonc wel hwær siendon. OE tr. Abbo of St. Germain Sermo in Cena Domini (Corpus Cambr. 190) in D. Bethurum Homilies of Wulfstan (1957) 372 And ge, Gode þanc, nu todæg beoð eft underfangene on cyrcan swylce into neorxnawange for eowre behreowsunge. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 11 (MED) Unbileue..is aiware aleid and rihte leue arered, godeðonc. c1300 St. Mary of Egypt (Laud) l. 175 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 266 I-blessed be god þat bringueth þe soule bote. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2005 Þus wolde þe theues me haue reft, But god-þank, he hauenet sure keft. a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 3 Bot, loued be God, þe pride es slaked Of þam [etc.]. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxii. §2. 398 Louyd be god fra this tyme of grace, that now is, whils this warldis standis, & withouten end. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xciii. 303 Syr, thanked be god we haue vaynquysshed the Emperoure. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 183 You breake iests as braggards do their blades, which God be thanked hurt not. View more context for this quotation 1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 12 The fellowe told him God be praised his good Landlord was well recouered. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. i. 1 Thanke God I..am recovering and picking up my crummes apace. 1668 in A. Agnew Hist. Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (1864) 372 I Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw Knyht Barronett, being, praised be God, in health and perfect memories. 1753 Scots Mag. July 320/2 Most of the landholders have now, thank God! abandoned that..religion. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xvi. 103 ‘Is not Madame Duval then with you?’ ‘With me! No,—thank God.’ 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 196 ‘O God be thank'd!’ said Alice the nurse, ‘That all comes round so just and fair.’ 1888 W. H. H. Murray Doom of Mamelons i. 11 God be praised that I reckoned the course aright. 1898 H. Macfall Wooings Jezebel Pettyfer xxxi. 329 ‘Thank Gahd!’ she muttered, ‘the Lord have delivered she into my hands.’ 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 305 Oh, god be thanked, it's our friends! 1963 E. Hyams New Statesman vii. 116 It is not, thank God, in the English character to face the fact that a man is a dismal failure and kick him out. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking iii. xii. 210 I have made them perforce hours ahead and they were still, praise God, delicious. 1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits ii. xxi. 89 God be praised, Anna has made it! < as lemmas |
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