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单词 promise-making
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promise-making
promise-making n. and adj.
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1442 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 138 (MED) I..never knewe of na swilke promysse makyng.
1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne f. 55 In the promise making he affirmeth, that the fleshe, whith he woulde geue vs to fede on, should be the selfe same fleshe, yt shold be geuen for the lyfe of the world.
1689 Irish Hudibras 131 Of Promise-making-Kings the best, Till over-ridden by the Priest.
1798 J. Baillie De Monfort iii. ii, in Series of Plays I. 364 And yet my bus'ness I will not unfold To this mild, ready, promise-making courtier; I've been by such too oft deceiv'd already.
1935 Times 6 Nov. 12/1 Among the less discreet or the less scrupulous there will develop..a certain recklessness in promise-making.
2002 A. Verhey Remembering Jesus v. xvii. 363 The Yahwist..told the stories that the people might learn to count their blessings and to count them as the blessings of this promise-making God of Abraham of Sarah.
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