单词 | to live in sin |
释义 | > as lemmasto live in sin d. to live in sin: to cohabit outside marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit to live together1483 adhere1525 cohabitc1530 to live in sin1838 to live (on) tally1864 shack1935 1838 Ann. Rep. Bath City Mission in G. R. Taylor Angel-Makers (1958) 67 Front attic, two aged people living in sin. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. vii. 213 Why, not..to know whether..she's married to him or not..and I not to know whether she's living in sin or not, Mr. William. 1912 D. Wyllarde Career of Beauty Darling xvii ‘It's twelve shillings if ye are truly married,’..‘and fourteen if ye are living in sin!’ 1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 92 Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 756/3 Lady Brabant..invites Niedermann, the composer, and Olga Nicolaï, the soprano, to stay with her..finds that they are ‘living in sin’, then cancels the invitation only to find that they have since been married. 1974 R. B. Parker Godwulf Manuscript vii. 56 A couple of freaky kids living in what my aunt used to call sin. < as lemmas |
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