| 单词 | to have as much right |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have as much (little, more, etc.) right 8. Legal entitlement or justifiable claim (on legal or moral grounds) to have or obtain something, or to act in a certain way; the advantage or profit deriving from this. Now chiefly in to have as much (little, more, etc.) rightcf. to have a right to at sense 9b and to have a (also no) right to (do something) at sense 9d. Cf. title n. 12, 11.See also birth-, common, divine right, at first word; also petition of right n. at petition n. Phrases 1.Formerly also in †to have good right. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement rightOE claimc1330 administrationc1384 titlea1400 justice1596 appellation1641 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > one's due rightOE dutyc1386 duec1450 expectativec1540 expectancy1624 expectance1652 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > a right rightOE charter1571 enlargementa1616 rectitude1660 dominiona1797 OE Genesis A (1931) 2153 Nelle ic þa rincas rihte benæman. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xiii. 266 Ic eom swiðe ungemetlice ofwundrad..hwi ge swa ungemetlice wundrigen þara gimma oððe æniges þara deadlicena þinga þe gesceadwisnesse næfð, forðam hie mid nanum syhte [read ryhte] ne magon gearnigan þæt ge heora wundrigen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14360 For he hefde rihte to þissere kine-riche. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 57 Kyng Edward..had gode right vnto þe regalte. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 46 Off kingis that aucht that reawte And mayst had rycht thair king to be. c1510 Gesta Romanorum (E.E.T.S.) 432 As moche ryght haue I in this tree as ye. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. sig. X2 In case it doth happen, that without right of bloud a man in such wise be possessed. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 310 Who made our Laws to bind us, not himself, And hath full right to exempt Whom so it pleases him. View more context for this quotation 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 7 Against Dissenters [he] would repine, And stood up firm for Right divine. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 15 Apr. 9 Conscious dulness has little right to be prolix. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 203 But here comes one has good right to do our errand to him. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 191 It was might, not right, which had put her in the position she occupied. 1897 Daily News 11 Dec. 5/7 Right, in its personal application, is indeed never but the underside of duty; turn it uppermost, and everything becomes topsy-turvy. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 195 He was a kind of tall, gaunted man sitting on the wagon, saying it was a public street and he reckoned he had as much right there as anybody. 1985 M. Engel in R. Sullivan More Stories by Canad. Women (1987) 24 He argued that, being male, he had more right to an education than she had. 2001 L. Block Hit List 229 A woman has as much right to get killed as anybody else. < as lemmas |
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