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单词 to go out of kind
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to go (also grow, swerve, etc.) out of kind
(b) Having lost, declined from, or forsaken the qualities of character appropriate to one's birth or ancestry; not true to one's inheritance; degenerate. Usually in to go (also grow, swerve, etc.) out of kind. Obsolete.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 187 A man..coueyteþ as Mercurius, gooþ out of kynde [L. degenerat] as Jubiter, and is cruel as Saturnus.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxlvij/1 Hast þu seen me, forsake my lygnage or go out of kynde [Fr. me as tu veu deslignager esprouue moy; L. numquid degenerem me probasti]?
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Ciiv On message to Pelide my father go:Shew vnto him my cruel dedes, and how Neoptolem is swarued out of kinde.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xi. f. xxv Neither dyd Ioseph growe out of kynde, & become vnlike his auncestours in faith.
1611 T. Draxe Christian Armorie i. xii. 120 His children might haue growen out of kind, and haue obscured and blemished his name.
1679 L. Sharpe Reward of Diligence 25 You so far degenerated from the spirit and actions of men, that you are grown quite out of kind.
a1784 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd in Sc. Wks. (1938) 125 For ye was born and hopes ye'll die a Laird. Ye're nae yet out of kind for a' your bra's.
1916 J. Mowat Caithness Prov. 8 ‘He's gaen oot o' e' kind’—he has broken the traditions of his ancestry.
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