单词 | to look up to |
释义 | > as lemmasto look up to (occasionally †at) b. to look up to (occasionally †at). extracted from lookv. (a) To raise one's eyes towards (God, heaven, etc.) in supplication or adoration. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look up to look up to1496 1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Cvii After this grete punysshement he loked vp to heuen with the syght of his soule askynge mercy of god. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 252v We should learne to tremble at his iudgement, & reuerently to loke vp to his mercie. 1587 E. Hake Oration conteyning Expostulation sig. A4 In these earthly descending bodies there are implanted heauenly ascending myndes, wherewith you might looke vp to your maker. 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 7 in Sylua Syluarum Let vs looke vp to God, and euery man reforme his owne wayes. 1673 J. Bunyan Def. Doctr. Justif. 50 This Man's Righteousness is made over to him, that looks up to him for Life. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 261 I had..been moved my self to look up to Heaven, and to seek to the Hand that had brought me there. 1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 141 Are these the patriots, to whom England was to look up for Salvation? 1849 G. B. Cheever Hill Diffic. ii. 177 The more you are in the habit of looking up to God before you go to church, the more you will see of God in the preacher. 1892 W. R. Alger Sources of Consol. ii. 141 Affectionate and humble suppliants..look up to heaven. 1922 I. T. Jones Is there God? ii. 56 Without a petition upon his lips, merely with a yearning soul, he looks up to God. 2004 C. Samartin Broken Paradise (2007) ii. 13 The depiction of Jesus hanging with his arms outstretched as he looked up to heaven, asking God to forgive all the sinners. (b) To have a great deal of respect for, to admire, venerate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)] followOE honourc1275 regard1526 to take off one's hat1571 respect1576 to see unto ——1579 suspect1590 honestate1623 defer1686 consider1692 to look up to1719 to have no (a lot of, etc.) time for1938 1719 Free-thinker No. 157. 2 These Three Ladies..look up to him, as their Patron and Defender. 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 100 The rest seem to look up at you, as of an higher Order of Intelligence. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 210 Sweden looks up to British agriculture as the model for imitation. 1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. x. 178 In Pitt England had at last found the man to whom it could look up. 1921 E. von Arnim Vera iv. 38 He had Lucy and her aunt as trusting friends who looked up to him, who had no doubts of him and no criticisms. 1958 Life 14 Apr. 127/1 Although Hitler and his Nazis had been wiped out years before, we still looked up to them as the meanest bops in history. 2006 V. Vinge Rainbow's End xv. 164 Amazing the thrill it was to have someone look up to him. < as lemmas |
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