单词 | rights of man |
释义 | > as lemmasrights of man 11. With possessive adjective or genitive: a person's (also in extended use, a thing's) entitlement or claim to something, now esp. political or civil privileges or liberties. Now usually in plural (frequently in rights of man, rights of woman (also women)). See also women's rights n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > one's right(s) i-rihtsc1000 rightc1300 judgementc1350 duec1450 droit1481 shayth1542 say1614 legitimate1650 pretension1710 entitlement1782 c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 229 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 113 (MED) Swyþe wel bi-gan þis Ercedekne holi churche bi-lede And stifliche heold op hire riȝte. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3714 Ðe lond is god, Ful of erf..Oc burges stronge and folc v-frigt, Stalwurði to weren here rigt. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 30 (MED) Yey schal saue ye kynge hys rythe, and non prejudys don a-geyn his lawe in yes ordenaunce. 1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 4 Þe pretensed ryght of my said lord mareschall. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxii. 124 Whanne the kyng was dede, somme wold haue taken her ryght fro her. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 192/23 Throw the titill and richt of Edmond Irnsydis sonis dochter. 1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 180 It is..a great discouraging to the people..when they are not defended..in their right and title. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 92 Lysander, yeeld Thy crazed title to my certaine right . View more context for this quotation c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 37 My Right is a Liberty left me by the Law to do any thing which the Law forbids me not. 1708 True Characters 9 She..is an Earnest Contender for the Rights of Woman-kind. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad i. 14 In vain for Polynices' right they bled. 1758 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. (ed. 2) v. 186 When many of the military came to be converted into soccage or burgage fiefs, the rights of women came to be attended to, and regarded. 1791 T. Paine (title) Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft (title) A vindication of the rights of woman; with strictures on political and moral subjects. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 147 To these have been opposed, with more presumption than prudence, the rights of woman. 1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 232 The enlightened friends of the rights of the people. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 222 Human nature at last asserted its rights. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) ix. 291 Respect the rights of the past: assert the rights of the present. 1916 H. Ellis Ess. in War-time viii. 88 The advocates of Woman's Rights have seldom been met by the charge that they were unjustly encroaching on the Rights of Man. 1940 C. Stead Man who loved Children iii. 92 He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. 1990 M. Strand Continuous Life 16 To be in love, to have a young pretty wife and children of his own, was not a crime or a deception, but his right. 2006 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 18/8 Minority Indo-Fijians..said a coup would give them back their rights. < as lemmas |
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