单词 | rent-raising |
释义 | > as lemmasrent-raising rent-raising n. and adj. ΚΠ 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) f. 12 (margin) Landlordes by the wai checked for Rent-raisyng. 1604 S. Rowlands Looke to It sig. D4v Rent-raysing rascals, you that care not how You do exact vpon the needy wretch, That liue euen on the poore mans sweating brow, And from his painefull toyle, your ryches fetch. 1793 J. Anderson Bee 3 Apr. 189 It is a state of mind, which, if the system of rent-raising continue to prevail with the same rigour which has been employed for some time past, will fall to the share of few among the class of farmers. 1876 Times 24 Apr. 10/5 It is altogether owing to an artificial system of rent raising. 1995 A. Macinnes in S. G. Ellis & S. Barber Conquest & Union vii. 186 The vernacular poets' stress on the traditional obligations of chiefs and leading gentry to their clansmen did not reverse absenteeism, prevent the accumulation of debts, or check rent-raising throughout Scottish Gaeldom. < as lemmas |
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