单词 | no-jest |
释义 | > as lemmasno-jest a. Forming nouns with the implication that the thing (or person) in question cannot properly be called by that name, owing to the absence of the specific qualities implied by it, as no-faith, no-form, no-jest, etc. Cf. sense 2a.Very common after 1600, but now rare (non- tending to be commoner: see non- prefix 2b). ΚΠ 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 103v Ye see a clere difference..betwene the doctrine..of our firste auncient faith, and of this vpstert no faith. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. Bv A..thredden cloake, That scarce would couer your no -buttockes. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 54 Inuenting..a new certaine no-forme of Liturgie to themselues. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 98 Laugh immoderately at his own no-jest. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. vii. 218 They..have been thoroughly frightened with certain no Persons called Ghosts. View more context for this quotation 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions V. 220 Effeminacy, and these other nothings, that constitute the no-character of a modern beau. 1814 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 239 I frankly confide to yourself these opinions, or rather no opinions of mine. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 572 The common story of Messalina's impudent no-marriage. 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 13 A dog such as I have described, whatever be his breed or his no-breed. 1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology p. xiii A certain view..has been accepted as the correct one, and, if the minute particulars of that view are examined, a rather different picture (that is also a no-picture, as we shall see) emerges. < as lemmas |
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