单词 | oft-repeated |
释义 | > as lemmasoft-repeated C2. Preceding a participial adjective used attributively (usually with hyphen), as oft-quoted, oft-recurring, oft-repeated, oft-told, etc. Cf. often adv. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1560 Medit. Penitent Sinner sig. Aa3, in A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias I fallyng to the ground,..Poure forth my piteous plaint with woefull sound, With smoking sighes, & oft repeted grone. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R8v Partaker of this oft-blinding light. 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore 4 Mine oft sold maiden head grew stale. 1626 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes (ed. 2) v. sig. E4 With oft-repeated labours, oft attented, They..deepely delu'd the furrow'd Seas. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 575 Oft-invocated death. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 22 Such difference is there in an oft-told tale; But truth by its own sinews will prevail. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 495 The oft-heav'd Axe. a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 333 The oft debated cause of the Capers of the two prize Danish ships. 1728 J. Smedley Gulliveriana 338 That Fam'd, oft-quoted Wind! I trow, Which Good to Nobody does blow. 1798 H. Brand Conflict ii. i, in Plays & Poems 171 The oft-recurring hopes of fabled bliss. 1809 M. Holford Wallace i. vii. 6 From Solway's oft disputed deep To Stroma's wild and stormy isle. 1859 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1854–8 6 318 The attacks of an oft-recurring malady. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 270 An old and oft-repeated tale. 1899 Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 50/3 No new light is thrown upon the oft-debated question about the three-battalion organization for the infantry regiment. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 263 Her first merciful lovesoft oftloved word. 1954 O. Nash Face is Familiar (rev. ed.) 115 The oft-quoted remark of the prominent and respectable dignitary. 1976 M. Butterworth Remains to be Seen i. 11 The wary air of an oft-disappointed augur reading entrails. 1997 N.Y. Times 10 June b1/1 An oft-told apocryphal story of a mother who, spying her child trapped under a school bus, finds the strength to lift the vehicle. < as lemmas |
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