| 单词 | man of property |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman of property man of property n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > man of property livelihood mana1450 livinga1450 man of livinga1556 man of property1765 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 115 The commons consist of all such men of property in the kingdom as have no seat in the house of lords. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. iv. 18 If the intermediate tenant is..a man of property, the same argument is applicable to his reletting to another intermediate man. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 52 You misled me by the term gentleman. I thought you were speaking of some man of property . View more context for this quotation 1919 J. Galsworthy Let. 25 Nov. in H. V. Marrot Life & Lett. J. Galsworthy (1935) iv. i. 485 I have just finished a sequel to The Man of Property, and, in accordance with the scheme I broached to you..have still one story and a third novel in further sequel to write, to make the whole of The Forsyte Saga. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 103 Now I was a man of property, the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford. < as lemmas |
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