| 单词 | to be in coventry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in Coventry 1. to send (a person) to Coventry: to exclude him from the society of which he is a member on account of objectionable conduct; to refuse to associate or have intercourse with him. So also to be in Coventry. [The origin of the phrase has been the subject of numerous ingenious conjectures: see Brewer, Phrase and Fable, etc. A probable suggestion refers it to the circumstances recorded in quot. 1703; a less likely source has been suggested in quot. a1691.] ΘΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] seclude1498 refrain1547 ostracize1649 proscribe1680 to send (a person) to Coventry1765 taboo1791 blackball1821 blackbean1829 to freeze out1861 unworld1868 exostracize1872 boycott1880 a1691 R. Baxter Reliquæ Baxterianæ (1696) i. i. 44 Thus when I was at Coventry the Religious part of my Neighbours at Kidderminster that would fain have lived quietly at home, were forced..to be gone, and to Coventry they came. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 36 At Bromicham, a Town so generally wicked, that it had risen upon small parties of the Kings, and kill'd, or taken them Prisoners, and sent them to Coventry [then strongly held for the Parliament].] 1765 Club Bk. Tarporley Hunt in R. E. Warburton Hunting Songs (1873) p. xvi Mr. John Barry having sent the Fox Hounds to a different place to what was ordered..was sent to Coventry, but return'd upon giving six bottles of Claret to the Hunt. 1787 F. Burney Court Jrnls. & Lett. (2011) II. 240 I sent his dependence & his building to Coventry, by not seeming to hear him. 1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 3. 20 [He] paid thirty shillings and sixpence for contumacy, and swore himself to Coventry. 1821 Croker in Croker Papers (1884) I. 203 (Farmer) I found MacMahon in a kind of Coventry, and was warned not to continue my acquaintance with him. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iii. 75 The oldsters..had sent me to the most rigid Coventry. 1885 W. E. Norris Adrian Vidal xxxiv She ended by virtually sending him to Coventry in his own house. < as lemmas |
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