英语词汇“to make a virtue of a need”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Originally Scottish. to make a virtue of a need and variants: = to make a virtue of necessity at Phrases 2a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in > to circumstances > with apparent willingness

to make a virtue of necessityc1405

to make a virtue of a needa1500

a1500 De Regimine Principum (Fairf.) 174 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1927) II. 85 Þus mon þou mak of neid vertu.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 478 in Poems (1981) 126 I counsall the mak vertew of ane neid.

1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. Biij^v She was faine to make a vertue of her neede.

1659 J. Wilson Cheerful Ayres or Ballads 28 Then will I make a vertue of my needing.

1818 C. Lamb Wks. I. 26 But, unable to proceed, Made a virtue out of need.

1920 Amer. Architect 8 Dec. 729/2 The War Museum Monument, the Music Player's War Memorial, both seek to impose a foreign utility as the first consideration, making a virtue of a need.

单词	to make a virtue of a need
释义	> as lemmas to make a virtue of a need b. Originally Scottish. to make a virtue of a need and variants: = to make a virtue of necessity at Phrases 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in > to circumstances > with apparent willingness to make a virtue of necessityc1405 to make a virtue of a needa1500 a1500 De Regimine Principum (Fairf.) 174 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1927) II. 85 Þus mon þou mak of neid vertu. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 478 in Poems (1981) 126 I counsall the mak vertew of ane neid. 1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. Biij^v She was faine to make a vertue of her neede. 1659 J. Wilson Cheerful Ayres or Ballads 28 Then will I make a vertue of my needing. 1818 C. Lamb Wks. I. 26 But, unable to proceed, Made a virtue out of need. 1920 Amer. Architect 8 Dec. 729/2 The War Museum Monument, the Music Player's War Memorial, both seek to impose a foreign utility as the first consideration, making a virtue of a need. extracted from virtuen. < as lemmas
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