单词 | because why |
释义 | > as lemmasbecause why 1. Followed by that or why: For the reason that. (Formerly for was sometimes prefixed.) archaic. Also because why used interrogatively, = ‘why?’ (cf. cause why n. at cause n. 3c); chiefly dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [adverb] > because that because whyc1305 the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [phrase] > why because why1887 c1305 Deo Gratias 37 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 125 Þou hast herd al my deuyse, Bi cause whi, hit is clerkes wise. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xv. 162 For because that Saturne is of so late sterynge. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 253 By cause that he was hir neghebour. c1486 Bk. St. Albans D iij b Theis be not enlured..by cause that thay be so ponderowse. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Bivv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens For bycause that the sayde indication is nat taken of the same cause, it is euydent, [etc.]. 1611 Bible (King James) John vii. 39 The Holy Ghost was not yet giuen; because that Iesus was not yet glorified. View more context for this quotation 1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 190 I abhor death, because that thou must die. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 10 Because why, why? wherefore? A very common controversy amongst boys:—‘No it ain't’—‘Cos why?’—‘Cos it ain't.’ 1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia i. 12 The painters try to paint her [sc. Etna]..in vain. Because why? 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xiv. 253 It's a cur'ous thing you askin' about that there sun-dial, because why? The very man wot sold vicar the chimbley-pot, 'e wos found dead in his own 'ouse only yesterday. 1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine viii. 164 I know a lot of people that rant on about their religion and it doesn't do any good. Because why? Because they're trying to convince themselves, maybe? < as lemmas |
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