| 单词 | sweetness and light |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweetness and light (b) sweetness and light, taken from Swift (see quot. 1704 at sense 1a(a) above) and used with æsthetic or moral reference; now usually in trivial (frequently ironic) use, under influence of senses 6, 7: pleasantness, good will. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] goodnessOE mund?c1250 daintethc1290 bountyc1300 daintyc1300 excellencec1384 virtuea1393 excellency?a1400 nobilitya1400 meritc1425 singularity?c1450 fineness1523 admirationa1533 rareness1545 rightness1561 rariety1566 rarity1566 excellentness1569 beautya1586 admirableness1607 primeness1611 gallantry1650 eximiety1656 optimity1656 altesse1660 unexceptionableness1669 excellingness1701 quality1803 sterlingness1815 stupendosity1828 goodliness1832 superbness1832 unexceptionability1837 sweetness and light1867 class1884 rortiness1885 rippingness1903 superstardom1928 motherfucker1977 awesomeness1998 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > pleasantness to the aesthetic sense sweetnessa1568 harmony1650 sweetness and light1867 aesthetic1926 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > agreeable behaviour pleasancec1350 agreeability?c1400 douceurc1400 plausibility1596 amenity1612 agreeablenessa1631 geniality1652 complacence1767 sweetness and light1867 genialness1888 the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] lustfulnessa900 sweetnessc900 sootnessc1000 unloathfulnessc1350 sugarc1374 pleasancec1395 agreeability?c1400 dulcourc1429 pleasure1497 pleasantnessa1500 douceness1518 dulceness?1526 dulcetness1528 pleasancy1545 ungrieffulness1556 acceptableness1565 rose water1584 pleasingnessa1586 amenity?1591 pleasing1591 acceptance1594 suavity1594 prettiness1604 jucundity1620 dulcity1623 pleasurableness1626 agreeablenessa1631 placency1639 acceptability1647 dulce1654 amicableness1667 pleasurability1793 niceness1809 dulciness1828 enjoyableness1868 Gemütlichkeit1892 sweetness and light1927 society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] sibeOE grithc1000 saughtc1100 grithfulness?c1225 peacec1230 peaceablenessa1382 paxc1390 sweetness and light1927 1867 M. Arnold Culture & its Enemies [Culture & Anarchy] in Cornhill Mag. July 45 Their ideal of beauty and sweetness and light, and a human nature complete on all its sides. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxviii. 567 Gallio..was pre-eminently endowed with that light and sweetness which are signs of the utmost refinement. 1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner vi. 186 He had been all sweetness and light and had not done a thing to them. 1949 N. Balchin Sort of Traitors xi. 191 You know how it is when you've got to poke about round somebody else's work—it's not all sweetness and light as a rule. 1953 ‘P. Wentworth’ Anna, where are You? vii. 45 A desire to spread sweetness and light. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings ii. iii. 106 Anskar, the monk of Corbey,..whose sweetness and light were probably much lightened and sweetened by his biographer Rimbert. 1974 Times 16 Jan. 16/5 When this Act was introduced it was done..to create sweetness and light between management and unions. 1982 Sunday Tel. 12 Dec. 14/5 Hell hath no fury like a peace-woman scorned, by comparison with whom even a Cruise missile becomes a soft symbol of sweetness and light. < as lemmas |
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