单词 | our worships |
释义 | > as lemmasour worships b. With the possessive in the first person. my worship: I, me, myself. our worships: we, us, ourselves. Sometimes humorous. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > I > me meeOE my worshipa1500 moi1760 your humble1765 us1828 yours truly1833 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvi. 336 Spare youre spech, ye brodels bold! And sesse youre cry till I haue told What that my worship wold. 1594 Life & Death Iacke Straw sig. B3 Iacke Straw. I haue his wife and children pledges, for his speedie returne... Tom Miller. Let him take heede hee bring a wise answere to our worships, or els his pledges goes to the pot. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) v. sig. F3 Hang. Thank your worships. Clin. I would your knaveship had our worships place, If hanging now be held so worshipful. 1668 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 223 I saw 3 good matches at Newmarket which pleased the king well, but not my worshippe, for I gott no money by them. 1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 26 She let him know that her Husband (meaning my Worship..) was out of Town. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. v. 33 I was conducted..into an apartment prepared for me: there I found a good bed, in which my worship went to sleep. 1807 Salmagundi 13 Feb. 50 One of the greatest sources of amusement..is to ramble about and hear the various conjectures of the town respecting our worships, whom every body pretends to know as well as Falstaff did prince Hal at Gad's-hill. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix.118 Your blessing, Father Abbot: what deep matters Have called our worships to this conference? 1860 Atlantic Monthly July 46/2 He [sc. an alcalde]..rapidly followed up his salutation by putting himself and the town and all the people in it ‘at the disposition of our Worships’. 1897 ‘R. Thirlmere’ Idylls of Spain 24 Spotless, too, were the bedrooms, into which we also prowled; and then came a frightened maid to ask what our Worships wanted. 1958 T. H. White Once & Future King iv. x. 635 I speak for the Queen, not for my own worship. < as lemmas |
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