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narrow way
b. In figurative contexts. Used chiefly to express the difficulty of following a moral or righteous course in life, esp. echoing Matthew 7:14 (frequently in narrow way).
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narrow wayOE
highwaya1200
the right way (also regionally gate) (of)a1628
straight and narrow path1842
high road1950
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. (headings to readings) xxiii Per latam uiam multos per angustam paucos introire testatur : ðerh brad woeg monige ðerh neruu uel unrum hwon uel unmonige inngae getrymes.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 13 Gangað inn þurh þæt nearwe geat.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6208 Þa follȝhe ȝitt tatt narrwe stih. Þatt ledeþþ ȝunnc till heoffne.
a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 343 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 230 (MED) Go we þane narewe pað [v.rr. narewe wei, naerewne wei] and þene wei grene.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vii. 14 How streit is the ȝate, and narewe [a1425 L.V. narwȝ; L. arcta] the weye, that ledith to lijf.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1406 (MED) Þe way of lyfe semes narow and harde Þat ledes us til our contre-warde.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xlii f. 26 (MED) Þis traueil is somdel streit and narw..hit is þe wei wilk Crist teched..seyend þus: Contendite intrare per angustam portam.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. 35 This strete is the narw way till heuen.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiii An other is so narrow in [1556 betwene] ye sholders, that he can beare no iestes nor tawntes.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas x. 142 There is but a narrow path betwixt fire and water, as Esdras speaketh.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 148 Honour trauells in a straight so narrow: Where on but goes a brest.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 1 Tread softly and circumspectly in this..narrow Path of Goodness.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 146 When Reason doubtful..Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 118 Himself a wanderer from the narrow way.
1825 T. Hood & J. H. Reynolds Odes & Addr. 31 O come and teach our children—that ar'n't ours—That heaven's straight pathway is a narrow way.
1839 New World 26 Oct. 1/7 I have heard of many young men who were first drawn aside from the narrow path, by going to those public places where so many bad people go.
1892 R. Kipling Buddha at Kamakura in Times (1940) 2 July 92 O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-glare to Judgment Day.
1912 T. Dreiser Financier xxiii. 253 In his..occasional variations from the straight and narrow path, he had learned much of the curious resources of immorality.
1994 Museums Jrnl. Sept. 7/2 The emotionally straight and intellectually narrow path of traditional curation.
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