英语词汇“to own sway”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. transitive. To acknowledge as having supremacy, authority, or power over oneself; to recognize or profess obedience to (a greater power, a superior, etc.). In later use only with abstract objects, esp. in to own (a person's) sway. Now somewhat archaic.

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society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit to [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge superiority or supremacy of

yield1604

own1653

to give (a person or thing) best1851

to hand it to1901

1653 Humble Remonstr. Gen. Councel Dalkeith 6 And herein we shal.., with our Hearts and Hands, and all our might, be ready to joyn with you, and to own you in the further prosecution of this great Work.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 2 The Prince of Darkness owns the Conquerour, And yields his Empire to a mightier Pow'r.

c1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 99 Man owns the power of kings; and kings of Jove.

1814 P. B. Shelley Summer-evening Churchyard ii Silence and twilight..breathe their spells..Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway.

1856 Littell's Living Age 12 July 125/1 That magnificent island..which still owns the dominion of the Spanish flag.

1870 J. Ellerton Evening in Church Hymns (1871) 29 Till all Thy creatures own Thy sway.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 23 Wessex owned his overlordship as it had owned that of Oswald.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xv We quail under his [sc. the chief's] glance, and are at the same time proud of owning so dangerous a lord.

1926 A. B. Simpson Challenge of Missions iv Earth's generations for a thousand years in millions and billions shall own His sway and crown Him Lord of all.

1939 H. D. F. Kitto Greek Trag. xiii. 379 The old men are to own his sway, as Pentheus himself will do, so much more terribly, in his last scene.

单词	to own sway
释义	> as lemmas to own (a person's) sway c. transitive. To acknowledge as having supremacy, authority, or power over oneself; to recognize or profess obedience to (a greater power, a superior, etc.). In later use only with abstract objects, esp. in to own (a person's) sway. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit to [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge superiority or supremacy of yield1604 own1653 to give (a person or thing) best1851 to hand it to1901 1653 Humble Remonstr. Gen. Councel Dalkeith 6 And herein we shal.., with our Hearts and Hands, and all our might, be ready to joyn with you, and to own you in the further prosecution of this great Work. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 2 The Prince of Darkness owns the Conquerour, And yields his Empire to a mightier Pow'r. c1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 99 Man owns the power of kings; and kings of Jove. 1814 P. B. Shelley Summer-evening Churchyard ii Silence and twilight..breathe their spells..Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway. 1856 Littell's Living Age 12 July 125/1 That magnificent island..which still owns the dominion of the Spanish flag. 1870 J. Ellerton Evening in Church Hymns (1871) 29 Till all Thy creatures own Thy sway. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 23 Wessex owned his overlordship as it had owned that of Oswald. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xv We quail under his [sc. the chief's] glance, and are at the same time proud of owning so dangerous a lord. 1926 A. B. Simpson Challenge of Missions iv Earth's generations for a thousand years in millions and billions shall own His sway and crown Him Lord of all. 1939 H. D. F. Kitto Greek Trag. xiii. 379 The old men are to own his sway, as Pentheus himself will do, so much more terribly, in his last scene. extracted from ownv. < as lemmas
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