单词 | to give a person credit for |
释义 | > as lemmasto give a person credit for (a) to give a person credit for: to attribute to a person as a quality, esp. a good one; to consider a person responsible for something notable or praiseworthy; occasionally also of a (personified) thing.Cf. to give credit at Phrases 4a. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > assign as properly relating to ascribe1382 titlec1425 adscribe1534 credit1563 arrogate1584 to give a person credit for1641 1641 T. Killigrew Prisoners i. iv. in Prisoners & Claracilla sig. B8v Thou break'st with the gods, thou breakst with him That gave thee credit for thy courage. 1699 S. Jenks Pract. Disc. Morality of Gospel iii. 63 We are evidently Guilty of a double Folly, if we do not gladly accept of what we have in Hand, and thankfully submit to give him Credit for the Rest. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxvi. 176 She gave herself credit for that perplexity in my behaviour. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv [They] give her credit for sincerity. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 123 And as for the clock..The Dame only gave it credit for ticking. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 15 He gives no credit to kings or emperors for any other motive. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter x. 152 You're a heap-sight smarter man than I gave you credit for bein'. 1946 G. Conklin Best of Sci. Fiction Introd. p. xv H. G. Wells..has given Stockton credit for helping him along the road which eventually resulted in The Time Machine. 1967 Ebony Aug. 126/2 He gives full credit to his mother for having ‘raised him straight’. 2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good iii. xii. 220 That said, the network..isn't nearly as Orwellian as its many detractors give it credit for being. < as lemmas |
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