单词 | often-used |
释义 | > as lemmasoften-used C2. Preceding a participial adjective used attributively (now usually with hyphen), as often-cited, often-expressed, often-recurring, often-repeated, often-used, etc. ΚΠ 1583 Sir P. Sidney Def. of Poesie Do we not see skill of Phisicke the best ramper to our often assaulted bodies? 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xvi The often weeping eies of drie lament, Doth powre forth burning water of despaire. 1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. ii. xx This often-heard report. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 376 Second or oftner-iterated Marriages. 1682 Fortunatus xxxix. 88 He having notice of it from one of her Uirgins; to whom she had revealed it by reason of his often repeated liberalities towards her. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. i. 3 Thy tempting Rewards..thy quickly convertible Bank-bill..thy often-varying Stock [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. v. 70 In the often-cited charter of Henry the first. 1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers xii. 70 The often-agitated question between agriculture and commerce, has from indubitable experience received a decision. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. v. 66 His often-expressed fears of her seeing nothing to her taste—though never in her life before had she beheld half such variety on a breakfast-table. View more context for this quotation 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xxxvi. 73 Adeline was not indifferent:..As a Volcano holds the lava more Within—..No! I hate to hunt down a tired metaphor: So let the often used volcano go. 1834 C. M. Sedgewick Redwood I. vii. 227 She had been resigned in afflictions, patient under all those often recurring vexations and petty disappointments. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 316 That often-recurrent affirmation concerning the purpose of the death of Christ. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 108 The greatly elongated and exaggerated first polyp of the colony, from which all the other polyps arise by often-repeated budding. 1970 J. Cotler in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xii. 407 This often-cited image is based on socio-cultural contrasts between the coast and the sierra. 1993 Dog World Oct. 94/2 Another often-expressed fear from the breed ring is that obedience will kill the dog's spirit. 2001 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 40/6 It had made us inescapably aware of an unglamorous and often-overlooked scandal. < as lemmas |
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