单词 | no kind of |
释义 | > as lemmasno kind of b. no kind of: used emphatically to denote the complete absence of anything of the kind specified, or to suggest that the subject could in no way be said to belong to the specified class. Later also any kind of (in negative contexts). Cf. no sort of.. at sort n.2 9. ΚΠ 1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles f. xli Goddes knowledge they saye is infallible in all thinges that shalbe, and that is moost true, but the infallibilitie is no kynd of cause, of ye thinge thereby so to be caused, to be, but onely an assuraunce that the thinge as it is knowen of god, shall so be. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste iii. ii. 111 The first writers had no kinde, or maner of Paper, but wrote continually on the leaues of the Date tree. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) i. ix. 125 There is no kind or degree of perfection that our imaginations are able to conceive. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xix. 83 The sash pullies, when the lead was gone, were of no kind of use. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 173 The embryo has no kind of vascular connexion with the sac that contains it. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 189/2 A poor old woman like me, who hasn't any kind of a handle to her name. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 118/2 When we talked, eventually he convinced me that he wasn't any kind of a nut. 1992 i-D July 53/3 The plot makes no kind of sense. 2013 Racing Post (Nexis) 2 July 6 I am no kind of expert in these matters. < as lemmas |
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