| 单词 | office of kindness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoffice of kindness 5. A service or kindness done, or attention shown or given, towards anyone. Chiefly with qualification, as good office, kind office, office of kindness, etc. Now usually in plural. Also with adjective of the opposite kind, as ill, etc.: a disservice (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > act of kindness goodOE loveOE estdedea1325 bounty1330 benefice1340 benefit1377 while1382 whileness1382 officec1384 excellencec1385 goodshipa1393 kindnessc1400 benevolencec1425 benignityc1534 obligement1611 obligation1618 friendlinessa1633 benevolenta1639 beneficence1654 amability1655 benefactiona1662 knight-service1675 kindliness1883 humanity1985 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > action > a bad turn shrewd turn1464 office1575 disservice1611 disoffice1624 evil turn1647 diskindness1678 bad turn1886 a shot in the eye1897 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. ix. 12 The mynisterie of this office..aboundith by manye in doynge of thankingis to the Lord. 1575 Queen Elizabeth I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 278 Which we have hitherto forborne to graunt..for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 137 Little office Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 93 I would I could doe a good office betweene you. View more context for this quotation 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (ii. 10) 147 Perhaps also neighbourly offices of kindnesse, and mercy sometimes passe from them. 1655 Sir M. Langdale in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 128 He suspectes father Talbot hath donne him some ill office. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 222 I know..that..ye design of getting themselves into ye place will encourage divers to doe me spightfull Offices. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. viii. 259 When the Servant came to attend the Nephew..he, instead of accepting the kind Offices tendered him, insisted [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xliv. 505 Those ill offices which his enemies..could employ against him. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman vii. 288 Affection would rather make one choose to perform these offices, to spare the delicacy of a friend. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. xiii. 263 I..am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices . View more context for this quotation 1877 W. Sparrow Serm. x. 128 Making men capable of mutual offices of kindness. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. I. 466/2 She [sc. Queen Anne] refused a mitre to Swift, as he professed to believe through the ill offices of his ‘mortal enemies’. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 33 In return she gets some little kindly office done for her. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxx. 359 He got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices. 1945 J. Colville Diary 1 Feb. in Fringes of Power (1985) 558 Journalism seems a possibility, and the kind offices of Lord Kemsley or Camrose might be solicited. 1971 H. Kissinger in White House Years (1979) xviii. 724 It is proposed that the precise details of Dr. Kissinger's trip..be discussed through the good offices of President Yahya Khan. 2001 Independent 13 Aug. ii. 2/1 Despite..the good offices of the churches, it is clear that the building of mutual respect and trust between the two communities has still a very long way to go. < as lemmas |
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