| 单词 | the bearer of bad news tidings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bearer of bad news (also) tidings 2. A person who brings or delivers a gift, a letter, a message, etc., esp. on behalf of another (often named by that person as ‘the bearer’ in the letter or message). Also: a person who brings or passes on news, intelligence, a rumour, etc. Now chiefly in the bearer of bad news (also) tidings. Cf. this bearer n. at this pron., adj., and n. Compounds.Recorded earliest in figurative context, in errand-bearer n. at errand n. Compounds 1a.gift-bearer, newsbearer, rumour-bearer, scandal-bearer, talebearer, tidings-bearer: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger erendrakec825 bodec888 apostlec950 sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 bearer?c1225 errand-bearer?c1225 messenger?c1225 erindeberea1250 sand-manc1275 beadsman1377 herald1377 messagea1382 runnera1382 sendmana1400 interpreter1490 nuntius1534 post1535 pursuivant?1536 nuncius1573 nuncio1587 carrier1594 nunciate1596 mercury1597 chiaus1599 foreranger1612 postera1614 irisa1616 missivea1616 chouse1632 angela1637 caduceator1684 purpose messenger1702 errand-bringer1720 harkara1747 commissionaire1749 carrier pigeon1785 errander1803 errand-porter1818 tchaush1819 card carrier1845 errand-goer1864 choush1866 ghulam1882 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 49 Þe licht echȝe..is as erende beorere of þe lichte heorte. 1402 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1932) 8 260 (MED) Þat ȝe sende hyt hyder by þe berer of þis letter. 1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 268 The rest of our myndis this faythfull berare will schaw you at lenth. 1695 S. Pepys Let. 15 Apr. in Mem. (1828) V. 213 You may be surprised..that..I come so soon to ask, for another, a favour it is so little a while since I troubled you for to myself. It is in behalf of this young man, the bearer. 1754 J. Hervey Let. 16 June in Lett. to F. Shirley (1782) lxviii. 205 I am not the Bestower, but only the Bearer of the Gift. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 589 Some of the messengers were honest fanatics: but others were mere mercenaries, and trafficked in the secrets of which they were the bearers. 1910 Improvem. Era Jan. 229 Not until then did it occur to me that a gossip was a bearer of tales, a scandal-monger, or one addicted to slander. 2006 K. W. Bender Moneymakers vi. 144 The company..preferred to blame the bearer of bad news for the missteps. < as lemmas |
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