| 单词 | to send away empty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto send away empty a. Of a person: having nothing to carry, or on one's person; empty-handed. Frequently as predicative complement, esp. in to send away empty; in later use often with allusion to biblical use (see quot. 1611).The more usual term in modern use is empty-handed adj.; cf. sense A. 5b. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xviii. 323 Se rica & se þearfa sind wæigfærende on þisre worulde: nu berð se rica swære byrðene, his gestreona, & se þearfa gæð æmtig. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. ix. 64 Þa ongan he hatian on his geþance & smeagan, þæt þa þearfan ne eodon æmtige [OE Hatton idelhende, L. vacui] onweg fram him. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Mark xii. sig. k.vii They caught hym and bete him and sent hym agayne emptye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ruth iii. 17 Thou shalt not come emptye vnto thy mother in lawe. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke i. 53 Hee hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich hee hath sent emptie away. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 37 I return'd you an empty Messenger. View more context for this quotation 1684 G. Pudsey Speech 2 The empty Traveller laughs at the Thief. 1799 Lavinia 90 The poor that frequented the house, whom she never dismissed empty. 1837 Family Mag. 4 100 He has a kind heart, and will not send you away empty. 1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah II. xiv. 10 The young Meccan,..having sent on his box by sea from Yambu to Jeddah, felt merry, like the empty traveller. 1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 60 And yet He spreads for all, both most and least; None away empty sent! 1990 M. Green Who is this Jesus? (1992) vi. 73 But when he sent his messengers to get some of the fruit each year they were beaten and sent away empty by the wicked tenants. < as lemmas |
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