单词 | right reason |
释义 | > as lemmasright reason right reason n. (also †good reason) rational thought directed towards ends regarded as correct.Perhaps sometimes understood as in sense 8.See also quots. c1330 at Phrases 3j, a1400 at Phrases 3o(a), ?a1425 at Phrases 3b, and c1390 at sense 6c. ΚΠ a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 36 (MED) Richard, rote of resoun ryht..of maidnes meke þou hast myht. ?a1450 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (BL Add. 12056) (1894) 8 (MED) He moste stodyen in..art, þat techyth hym to preven ys proposiciones with gode resoun. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 97 Yf man wold folow ever ryght reson & the jugement therof. 1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 210 It war aganis bayth natur and gud ressoun That Dewlbeiris bairnis wer trew to God or man. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋1 That the Church be sufficiently prouided for is so agreeable to good reason and conscience. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. i. ii. xvii The Dog, the Horse..Will all..claim their share in use of right reason. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 14 If once right Reason drives that Cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless Day. 1720 Humourist 64 My Countrymen must excuse me, if I say, upon the Square of right Reason we make as ill a Figure as they do in Italy or Asia. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 10 Aug. 44 The clue of right Reason, which we are bound to follow in the communication of Truth. 1887 R. Browning G. B. Dodington in Parleyings i Right reason being judge. 1910 Catholic Encycl. VII. 716/1 Those likes and dislikes that are not under full and absolute control of right reason and strong will-power. 1989 S. R. L. Clark Civil Peace & Sacred Order vii. 136 Natura naturans, the spiritual cause and principle that governs the entire phenomenal world, is also what is experienced in us as right reason, conscience, the command of God. < as lemmas |
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