单词 | bearing up |
释义 | > as lemmasbearing up bearing up n. the action of to bear up at bear v.1 Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses); esp. the supporting or upholding of a person or thing; the action or fact of holding out against adversity. Also: an act or instance of this. ΚΠ a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Bodl. 776) (1911) l. 269 [a1450 Arun. Ne were the porayle her] beryng [Arun. continues vp and Supportacioun, Farwel lordshyp]. 1491 tr. H. Seuse Orologium Sapiencie vii. sig. Cviiiv in Bk. Diuerse Ghostly Maters (Caxton) Suffre the berynge vppe or the helpes of god to Ioyne the to god. 1591 Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings (P.R.O.: DL 1/153 F3) Other workes..made within the groundes of your oratours said myne at your oratours great charges for bearing up of the groundes there. 1631 J. Done Polydoron sig. E10v There are 3 sorts of honest men, viz. your exchangeman for the bearing up of his credit, [etc.]. 1757 Alarm to People of Eng. 35 Maintenance is, the taking in Hand, bearing up, or upholding of Quarrels, or Sides, to the Disturbance, or Hinderance, of the common Right. 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 133/2 The bearing up of the body in flight is thrown as much, if not more, upon the muscular attachment of the blade-bone to the ribs as upon the sternum. a2015 A. C. Brandabur Time's Fool (2016) iv. 95 His bearing up under the extremities of pain is like the bearing up of the ‘steady air’ under the wings of the Windhover in Hopkins' poem. < as lemmas |
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