单词 | reassuming |
释义 | > as lemmasreaˈssuming reaˈssuming adj. and n. ΚΠ 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 54v The Queen whilest shee did wash her handes, one that caried the golden bason, receyued therin the water, that it might not fall agayne into the reassuming fountaine [It. fontana reassumpta]. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. Index sig. cccc/3 Iames town in Virginia, how situate, 1692... The abandoning, and re-assuming thereof by the English, 1732. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 120 The voluntary resigning, and the reassuming of my life. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus (1674) i. v. 5 In the Venetian Common-wealth, those reformations of Government, those re-assumings of State were never seen. 1830 F. Baylies Hist. Mem. Colony New Plymouth II. v. 100 Their reassuming of their said former way of government. 1887 K. Tynan Shamrocks 161 I think that heaven will be, In some sort, reassuming of old things. 1964 Econ. Devel. & Struct. Change 13 15 After the 1960 elections and the reassuming of power by U Nu. 1996 P. Alpers What is Pastoral? vi. 250 These fluid identifications, the picking up and dropping and reassuming of roles. < as lemmas |
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