单词 | obsequiously |
释义 | obsequiouslyadv. 1. a. With ready compliance or eagerness to serve or please; dutifully. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adverb] debtfullyc1425 lawfullyc1500 obsequiously?1536 dutifully1552 observantly1647 piously1741 duteously1814 responsibly1825 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adverb] welleOE blithec1000 blithelyc1000 goodfullya1300 blethelyc1300 milthlyc1300 kindlya1375 benignlyc1380 en-gree14.. homelya1425 benevolently1532 benign1535 obsequiously?1536 kindly1581 kind1592 propitiously1600 kindlily1625 well-meaningly1645 obligingly1646 candidly1650 beneficentlya1717 kindly-like1716 good-naturedly1725 benignantly1791 kindheartedly1803 ?1536 tr. Erasmus Serm. Chylde Jesus ii. sig. C.i None more truely loueth his parentes, none more naturally honoreth them, none obeyeth them more obsequiosly, than he which thus contemneth them. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 53 We (very obsequiouslie) giue to the poore onely the mould of our treasure. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 21 What friends soeuer he chose..he vsed most obsequiously. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvi. 335 We cannot reasonably expect, that any one should readily and obsequiously quit his own Opinion. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 7 No Subjects more obsequiously obey. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v We should be observant of her [sc. Nature's] sacred indications, and not presume to lead when we ought obsequiously to follow. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxvii It is generally the custom with man-of-war's-men to stand obsequiously touching their hat at every sentence they address to the Captain. 1896 J. Conrad Outcast of Islands i. 7 He would walk in the middle, his shadow gliding obsequiously before him. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 141 The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [adverb] obsequiously1597 funerally1829 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 3 Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The vntimely fall of vertuous Lancaster. View more context for this quotation 1608 R. Johnson Seauen Champions 60 There obsequiously to offer up unto the angry destinies many a bitter sighe and teare. 2. With undue submission, deference, or desire to please; in a servile, fawning, or abject way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adverb] abjectlya1500 servilely1550 bondly1553 slavishly1565 fawningly1591 demissly1598 with hat in hand1599 assentatorilya1626 hat in hand1629 cringingly1675 obsequiously1736 trucklingly1831 crawlingly1865 snivellingly1959 1736 W. Shenstone Verses to Lady 7 Oct. When theatres for you the scenes forgo, And the box bows, obsequiously low. 1741 M. Jones Let. 13 Sept. in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1750) 196 So obsequiously civil as to flatter Sun, Moon, and Stars promiscuously. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Sidle ‘To sidle about a person,’ to attend him obsequiously. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 246 ‘Won't you please to walk into the parlour, sir?’ said Chubb, obsequiously. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 5 There was Dean, bowing, shuffling obsequiously in the dark of the hall, and saying, ‘Hel-lo, you remember me..’. 1982 S. K. Penman Sunne in Splendour (1984) i. xx. 218 The innkeeper was hovering anxiously in the background..obsequiously eager to please. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.?1536 |
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