| 单词 | sum and substance |
| 释义 | > as lemmassum (also †summary) and substance P3. sum (also †summary) and substance see sum n.1 Phrases 4, summary n. 2. sum and substance P4. sum and substance: the essence of something; the real or essential meaning.In quot. a1616: the entirety. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] pitheOE i-cundeeOE roota1325 substancec1330 juicec1380 marrowa1382 formc1385 acta1398 quidditya1398 substantial forma1398 inward1398 savourc1400 inwardc1450 allaya1456 essencya1475 being1521 bottom1531 spirit?1534 summary1548 ecceity1549 core1556 flower1568 formality1570 sum and substance1572 alloy1594 soul1598 inwardness1605 quid1606 fibre1607 selfness1611 whatness1611 essentialityc1616 propera1626 the whole shot1628 substantiala1631 esse1642 entity1643 virtuality1646 ingeny1647 quoddity1647 intimacy1648 ens1649 inbeing1661 essence1667 interiority1701 intrinsic1716 stamen1758 character1761 quidditas1782 hyparxis1792 rasa1800 bone1829 what1861 isness1865 inscape1868 as-suchness1909 Wesen1959 1572 E. Cradock Shippe of Assured Safetie iv. x. 447 He will satisfie him with long life, and in the ende shew him his saluation: wherin ye very summe and substaunce of all blessednesse dothe most fully and perfitly consist. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 16 My riches, are these poore habiliments, Of which, if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I haue. View more context for this quotation 1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. sig. B This is the summe and substance of the usual Censures and Objections of our Anti-Ceremonian Brethren. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xv. 295 What is the Sum and Substance, Scope and End of Christ's Religion, but the Love of God and Man? 1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xii. 144 The Sermon on the Mount contains the sum and substance of Christianity. 1969 G. Friel Grace & Miss Partridge xi in Glasgow Trilogy (1999) 367 The familiar carefree sessions that used to be the sum and substance and irreplaceable pleasure of a Friday night. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 158 Men and women don't think the same way, don't communicate the same way, don't buy for the same reasons. That's the sum and substance of this Trend. < as lemmas |
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