单词 | to have way |
释义 | > as lemmasto have way (b) to have way. Cf. sense A. 11. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (i) Of a feeling: to be vented; to find expression. Also of tears: to fall, be shed. Frequently with modal auxiliary. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] break out into or in1480 to have way?1614 ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses x. 159 But griefe was neuer good, at great affaire. It would haue way yet. [No corresponding sentence in the Greek original.] 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer i. 37 There is a Day In which thine Indignation shall have way. 1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iv. iii. 55 This idle Rage is Vain! And yet, my swelling Passions will have way; And rend my labouring Breast till they find vent. 1739 D. Mallet Mustapha v. vi. 80 A few tears will have way At this eternal parting. 1846 G. P. R. James Step-mother xxxii He evidently strove to speak calmly, but the father's apprehensions would have way, and his voice trembled, and his lip quivered. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xix Tom dropped his face into his hands, and a scalding tear or two had way in spite of him. 1906 S. M. Hensley Heart of Woman 51 Canst thou not understand a nature strong And passionate, with impulses that sway, With yearning tenderness that must have way. (ii) To have freedom of action; (later more strongly) to have ascendancy, be predominant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > have freedom of action [verb (intransitive)] to have one's forth1362 to have waya1616 to have a free hand1838 to have one's hands free1838 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 236 Let me haue way, my Lord To finde this practise out. View more context for this quotation 1640 J. Price Anti-Mortonus xxxix. 649 That the Blessed Bishop of the City of Rome, to whom antiquity hath yeilded the Priestood ouer all, may haue way to iudge of Bishops, and of fayth. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest iii. ii. 100 I prithee now, Let me have way in this. 1831 New Monthly Mag. 31 497 Wherever the popular will had way in the elections, it was declared loudly and peremptorily for the ministerial measure of Reform. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems I. 246 Pol. If he desires to wed That woman and legitimate her child—Cha. You see as much? Oh, let his will have way! 1904 P. Gardner Hist. View New Test. ii. 63 As regards the expression of Christian ideas in doctrinal form, two tendencies had way in the early Church. 1996 P. J. Haas in W. S. Green & J. Neusner Relig. Factor xii. 191 She prayed, ‘Let the angels have way over the creatures.’ But the rabbis did not stop praying. < as lemmas |
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