英语词汇“to give quarter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Exemption from being immediately put to death granted to a vanquished opponent by the victor in a battle or fight; clemency or mercy shown in sparing the life of a person who surrenders. Frequently in to give (also receive) quarter. Formerly also in plural. †to cry quarter: to call for quarter (obsolete).

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the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > mercy > quarter in battle

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quarter1611

the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > have mercy > show mercy > to conquered enemy

to give (also receive) quarter1611

the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > excite pity [verb (intransitive)] > ask for mercy

to cry (a person) mercyc1225

to cry quarter1720

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quartier,..quarter, or faire war, wherein souldiers are taken prisoners and ransomed at a certaine rate.

c1644 MS. Hist. Somerville Family in W. Scott Rokeby (1813) Notes p. xv Having refused quarters, every man fell in the same order and ranke wherin he had foughten.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxvi. 41 He suffer'd Tilly to take that great town with so much effusion of bloud, because they wold receave no quarter.

1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 47. 686 I prosecuted, and in a very short time made him cry quarter, having shot his mizon Maste and Saile into the Sea.

1659 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age (ed. 2) Contin. 308 Many were cut down, the Swedes giving no quarter.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 198 The Portuguese cried Quarter.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Quarters! is also an exclamation to implore mercy from a victorious enemy.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxii. 494 Civil wars are also peculiarly bloody, because less quarter is expected in them.

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xxiv. 39 Cry For quarter, or for victory.

1829 R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Interior Mexico xii. 300 The Céres, like the Malay pirates of India, neither gave nor received quarter.

1841 G. P. R. James Brigand iii Several of them uttered a cry of ‘Quarter quarter’.

1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign ii. 32 The town was to be rushed in the night, and the whites to be slaughtered without quarter to any.

1940 J. Colville Diary 12 July in Fringes of Power (1985) 192 In war quarter is given, not on grounds of compassion but in order to discourage the enemy from fighting to the bitter end.

1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. xxvi. 485 They had to run the gauntlet of the Tigrean peasantry, who gave no quarter to the fugitives.

单词	to give quarter
释义	> as lemmas to give (also receive) quarter a. Exemption from being immediately put to death granted to a vanquished opponent by the victor in a battle or fight; clemency or mercy shown in sparing the life of a person who surrenders. Frequently in to give (also receive) quarter. Formerly also in plural. †to cry quarter: to call for quarter (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > mercy > quarter in battle grith13.. quarter1611 the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > have mercy > show mercy > to conquered enemy to give (also receive) quarter1611 the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > excite pity [verb (intransitive)] > ask for mercy to cry (a person) mercyc1225 to cry quarter1720 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quartier,..quarter, or faire war, wherein souldiers are taken prisoners and ransomed at a certaine rate. c1644 MS. Hist. Somerville Family in W. Scott Rokeby (1813) Notes p. xv Having refused quarters, every man fell in the same order and ranke wherin he had foughten. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxvi. 41 He suffer'd Tilly to take that great town with so much effusion of bloud, because they wold receave no quarter. 1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 47. 686 I prosecuted, and in a very short time made him cry quarter, having shot his mizon Maste and Saile into the Sea. 1659 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age (ed. 2) Contin. 308 Many were cut down, the Swedes giving no quarter. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 198 The Portuguese cried Quarter. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Quarters! is also an exclamation to implore mercy from a victorious enemy. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxii. 494 Civil wars are also peculiarly bloody, because less quarter is expected in them. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xxiv. 39 Cry For quarter, or for victory. 1829 R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Interior Mexico xii. 300 The Céres, like the Malay pirates of India, neither gave nor received quarter. 1841 G. P. R. James Brigand iii Several of them uttered a cry of ‘Quarter quarter’. 1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign ii. 32 The town was to be rushed in the night, and the whites to be slaughtered without quarter to any. 1940 J. Colville Diary 12 July in Fringes of Power (1985) 192 In war quarter is given, not on grounds of compassion but in order to discourage the enemy from fighting to the bitter end. 1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. xxvi. 485 They had to run the gauntlet of the Tigrean peasantry, who gave no quarter to the fugitives. extracted from quartern. < as lemmas
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