| 单词 | to make violence to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make violence to (also on, etc.) P2. to make violence to (also on, etc.): = to do violence to at Phrases 1. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > do harm [verb (intransitive)] woundc897 to do or work wough?c1225 to do (work, make) scathec1275 annoy1340 nuisec1350 harm1362 scathe1488 to make violence to (also on, etc.)1529 prank1530 damnify1621 endamage1635 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > fall from chastity (of woman) [verb (intransitive)] > rape to make violence to (also on, etc.)1529 1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. ii. sig. B.vii He that with a parfait faith and trust comyth vnto god he maketh violence [Du. doet..ghewelt] vnto the euerlastynge lyfe. 1597 W. Burton tr. Achilles Tatius Most Delectable & Pleasaunt Hist. Clitiphon & Leucippe 62 The theeues hauing espyed a ship wandring and floting about the coast made violence vpon her. 1657 S. Du Verger Humble Refl. 136 The Emperour, Kinge, Prelate, Prince, Preist and people, with vnanimous hartes, and ioynt endeuours, to make violence against heauen. 1683 F. C. Ph. tr. Crafty Lady 50 I intreat you to make violence to your modesty by liking that I send you my Coach. 1781 tr. P. Metastasio Ezio iii. i. 38 I dissembled till now, and was forced to make violence to my feelings. 1853 Crayon May 151/2 The extreme height of the dome..will make violence in the general outline of the mass. 1931 H. Lanz Physical Basis of Rime v. 167 His set of rules for successful riming recommends ‘to wrest no word from his natural propriety’, nor to make violence to grammatical order for the sake of rime. 1975 F. G. Perey in R. A. Schrack & C. D. Bowman Nucl. Cross Sections & Technol. II. 843/1 If one starts from the best estimates based on microscopic data, one must make violence to the microscopic data. 2006 C. Goggins Of Love & War viii. 40 What's needed is for us to learn how to make violence on ourselves instead of others. < as lemmas |
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