单词 | to be more —— than the |
释义 | > as lemmasto be (also act, etc.) more —— than the —— (themselves, etc.) i. to be (also act, etc.) more —— than the —— (themselves, etc.): to have adopted or developed the characteristics proper to the specified group or individual to a greater degree than the latter. Frequently depreciative. [In quot. 1845 translating German lutherischer als die Lutherischen (1842), itself echoing die aller besten Lutherischen (Luther, 1528); compare also French être plus royaliste que le roi ‘to be more royalist than the king’ (1814 or earlier, said to date from the time of Louis XVI), post-classical Latin Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior ‘more Irish than the Irish’ (recorded in use by R. H. Barham in 1843 in R. H. D. Barham Life & Lett. R. H. Barham (1870) II. 166).] ΚΠ 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 499 Luther said, the papist Junkers were in this respect more Lutheran than the Lutherans themselves. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 453 To reason more Jesuitically than the Jesuits themselves. 1859 Sat. Rev. 7 304/2 In all that makes religion objective, as he would say, the Church of Humanity is more churchish than the Church. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 115 How a Great Daily Organ is turned out... Nature Notes. Cartoons. Phil Blake's weekly Pat and Bull story... More Irish than the Irish. 1960 O. Manning Great Fortune iii. 219 They have become more Nazi than the Nazis. 1991 N.Y. Times c4/2 The decade was in many ways more 60's-ish than the 60's. < as lemmas |
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