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单词 the error of one's ways
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the error of one's ways
b. In plural. A person's habitual conduct viewed with regard to its morality. Now frequently in the error of one's ways (cf. earlier the error of one's way at sense A. 16a).See also the much weakened sense A. 23b.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > collectively > specific with regard to morals
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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xxxviii. 1 Dixi cvstodiam uias meas ut non delinquam in lingua mea : ic cweð ic haldu wegas mine ðet ic ne agylte in tungan minre.
OE Wulfstan Isaiah on Punishment for Sin (Hatton) 220 Bonas facite uias uestras & studia uestra... Gehyrað..Godes word nu ða &..godiað georne eowre agene wegas & ealle eowre dæda.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 83 (MED) Ic wile tache ðo unrih[t]wisen ðine weiȝes.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 3 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 265/2 (MED) Þou forsagh mi waies [L. vias] ilkan.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 (MED) If þou sey not to þe wickid man þat he go fro his wickid weies..I schal seek his blod of þin hond.
c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 762 (MED) New Gyse, Nowadays, Nought wyth þer allectuose ways They haue pervertyde Mankynde.
1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule vi. sig. B,viv Let vs doo as the prophet sayth, I haue aduysid and purposed with my sealfe to take hede of my wayes, that I offende not with my toong.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) James i. 8 A waverynge mynded man is vnstable in all his wayes.
?1526 J. Fisher Serm. conc. Heretickes sig. F.iij They dispise al gouernours, and them that be in auctorite, & they be stiffe & heedy in their wayes.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 39/1 So that euer at length euil driftes dreue to nought, & good plain wayes prosper.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 95 Thow sall not follow wickit mennis wayis.
1599 W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. D3 And to her will frame all thy waies.
1668 J. Owen Nature Indwelling-sin xvii. 291 His Companions in sin not finding him in his old wayes begin to laugh at him.
1671–1704 Two-penny-worth of Wit for Penny (single sheet) Lives so civil in his ways That all his neighbours give him Praise.
1741 S. Richardson Lett. Particular Friends lvi. 71 Consider then, I beseech you, in time, the Evil of your Ways.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 23 Seeing the error of his ways he had undergone a conversion.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvii. 232 I wish, friend, thee would leave off cursing and swearing, and think upon thy ways.
1913 F. Bancroft Divided 18 A..heart-searing worship that softened his iron nature to an occasional fit of repentance and amendment of his ways.
1972 Times 15 Aug. 10/5 [He] will suddenly realize the error of his ways.
2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 48/1 The message is: bullies must learn the errors of their ways by enduring a taste of their own medicine.
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