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单词 to be bold
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to be (so) bold
3. Phrases. to make (so) bold, to be (so) bold: to venture, presume so far as, take the liberty (to do a thing). †to make or be bold with (obsolete): to take liberties, make free with.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > have freedom of action [verb (intransitive)] > take liberties
to be (so) boldc1385
to take (a or the) boldness1526
to take the (also a) liberty (to do something)1582
to make (so) bolda1616
free1889
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > not restrain [verb (transitive)] > take liberty with or to do
to make or be bold withc1385
to take the (also a) liberty (to do something)1582
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 879 Ho hath been so bold..to sle myn lyf [i.e. Pyramus].
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 259 Iason..upon Medea made him bolde Of art magique.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 7 I wil only be bold with Benedick for his company. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 242 Ile first make bold with your mony.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 86 I thinke we are too bold vpon your Rest. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 251 Sir, let me be so bold as aske you. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 319 You made bold To carry into Flanders, the Great Seale. View more context for this quotation
1641 W. S. in More's Hist. Edward V (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A3v I am bould to crave your patronage herein.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. K2v Because they were all Christians, they thought..they might make the bolder with them, make bolder with Christ, and wound him again.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 216 Whether of these our Author made bold with, I cannot determin.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. x. 327 We are bold to say that no instance can be found.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 166 Nothing, I make bold to say, can be more improbable.
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