单词 | to have the conscience |
释义 | > as lemmasto have the conscience P8. to have the conscience: (a) to consider it right or acceptable to do something; (b) (ironically) to have the assurance or effrontery to (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > be impudent enough to to have the face (to do something)?1562 to have the conscience1595 to have the cheek (to do something)1823 to have a nerve1887 1595 ‘J. Dando’ & ‘H. Runt’ Maroccus Extaticus sig. B3 What thinke you by him that had the conscience to aske fourteene yeardes of Satten for a sute of Apparell, and not to put in nine of them. 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance iv. i. 51 And can you have the Conscience to carry away all our Money Sir? 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon i. ii. 8 I..saw him knocking at the Gate; and I had the Conscience to let him cool his Heels there. ?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 5 A Third Rogue tips me by the Elbow, and wonders how I have the Conscience to sneak abroad. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 259/2 They had the conscience to charge an English sea officer..300 livres (12 guineas and a half) for eight days lodging. 1835 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 180/2 The extortionate rents; at least double as much as any English landlord would have the conscience to ask. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. iii. 170 He had the conscience to expect that we magistrates would meddle in his dispute and take his part. 1918 A. R. Taber Let. 22 Aug. in S. R. Taber Arthur Richmond Taber (1920) 151 I was having a sufficiently ‘good time’, and therefore have not had the conscience to put in an application for another leave. 1997 W. Aarvik in T. Frängsmyr & I. Abrams Nobel Lect. Peace 1981–90 134 How is it possible, in a world ravaged by famine, poverty and sickness, that anyone has the conscience to use more than 800 million dollars a year on armaments? 2005 D. Danenberg How to restore your Wooden Runabout II. ii. 21/2 Will you have the conscience to warn him or her away from buying your boat? < as lemmas |
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