单词 | to let light of |
释义 | > as lemmasto let light of ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1027 Þer of was moraunt glade, Of tristrem he lete liȝt. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 2 (MED) Scripture scorned me..and liȝte by me she sette. 1476 B. Burgh tr. Cato's Distichs (Caxton) iv But yet of deth shalt thou set but light Yf by this lyf thou set right noght expresse The whiche is ay ful of wo & wrechednesse. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 132 We ought not to set light by that knowledge of it [sc. the soul] which wee may attaine vnto. 1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 240 Thereby the words of the Scripture may be extenuated and set light of. 1714 Cloud of Witnesses 141 Do not think, but God will be about with this Generation, for letting so light of such things, and casting them behind their Backs. 1910 Reform Advocate 18 June 939 Garrulity is setting light by ourselves, light by the uses of life. < as lemmas |
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