单词 | re-wish |
释义 | re-wishv. transitive. To wish (something) again; (occasionally) to wish in return, to wish back. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > [verb] > wish again re-wish1592 1592 A. Munday tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande: 2nd Pt. ii. xxi. sig. Z When the morning was come, and the rising Sunne made shew of a new daie, the young princesse hauing enioyed no rest all that night, amorous imaginations had so carryed her thoughts to and fro, with wishing and rewishing for the midde daie houre. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. xi. 285 These, in few houres, Re-wish, what late their wishes did obtaine. 1856 U.S. Mag. Feb. 302/3 We have shaken about fifty hands, been shaken by the same in return, and have wished and been re-wished a like number of ‘happy New Year's’. 1903 H. James Let. 23 Nov. (1984) IV. 294 I re-wish immensely that I might have talked with you while the book was a-writing. 2009 B. A. Ferber Jemma Hartman vi. 54 If I'd known then that Brooke was coming to camp, I would have found a real star and rewished. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1592 |
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