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单词 no mere
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no mere ——
a. Having no greater extent, range, value, power, or importance than the designation implies; that is barely or only what it is said to be. Also in negative constructions, as no mere ——.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > bare or mere
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1547 S. Gardiner Let. (1933) 337 So as, being true that only fayth justyfieth not, which the booke avoweth, by the meere nature of the woordes of the booke this proposition..is clerely made false.
1566 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews (1889) I. 267 Thai ar mer layik and ignorant personis.
1586 R. Hooker Disc. Justif. (1612) §32. 54 Nestorius..held, that the Virgin..did not bring forth the sonne of God, but a sole and a mere man.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 345 The throate..being onely a meere way and place of passage, through which meates and drinkes passe to and fro.
1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 104 A meere layman.
1660 G. Wither Speculum Speculativum 140 'Tis no meer outward or corporeal sense Of Pleasures or Immunities, from whence My Joys do spring.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 532 To the utmost of meer man both wise and good, Not more. View more context for this quotation
1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. i. 9 This military Function became a meer Title of Honour.
1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 23 Decorum's turn'd to mere civility.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. p. xiv Our public performances are..looked upon as a meer form.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 5 Even when a mere child I began my travels.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 532 Those who had pecuniary transactions with him soon found him to be a mere swindler.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §4. 300 Immersed as Archbishop Warham was in the business of the State, he was no mere politician.
1892 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 24 Dec. 188/1 The defendant had been maliciously making noises for the mere purpose of..annoying the plaintiffs.
1908 J. London Martin Eden xxvii. 231 He had striven to be something more than a mere writer of magazine fiction.
1925 J. Conrad Suspense i. i. 12 Your request looks like mere caprice.
1990 UnixWorld Apr. 9/2 Somewhere the idea that nonprogrammers (mere mortals) would constitute the majority of potential users got lost.
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