英语词汇“to take it on one's honour”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†e. to take it on (also upon) one's death, etc.: (with subordinate clause) to assert emphatically that something is the case. Also to take it on one's honour, to take something upon one's soul (rare). Obsolete.

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a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 1242 (MED) Vppon my Sowle to taaken this thing, but jn alle my lyf..herde j nevere of swich thing spoken ore.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxlvi Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen & quartered at tiborne, takyng vpon his death, that there was neuer no suche thyng by theim ymagened.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 13 I tooked [1623 took't] on my ho[nour] thou hadst it not.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 110 Vpon his death-bed he..tooke it on his death That this my mothers sonne was none of his.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 379 Guiltlesse of any offence..as he tooke it vpon his death.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love v. ii. 283 I will take it upon my Death, I saw him come in with nothing but his Gown on.

1778 H. Brooke Charitable Assoc. i. ix, in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 230 I would take it, on my death, that she, herself, does not know who is the father of the child—poor soul!

单词	to take it on one's honour
释义	> as lemmas to take it on one's honour †e. to take it on (also upon) one's death, etc.: (with subordinate clause) to assert emphatically that something is the case. Also to take it on one's honour, to take something upon one's soul (rare). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 1242 (MED) Vppon my Sowle to taaken this thing, but jn alle my lyf..herde j nevere of swich thing spoken ore. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxlvi Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen & quartered at tiborne, takyng vpon his death, that there was neuer no suche thyng by theim ymagened. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 13 I tooked [1623 took't] on my ho[nour] thou hadst it not. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 110 Vpon his death-bed he..tooke it on his death That this my mothers sonne was none of his. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 379 Guiltlesse of any offence..as he tooke it vpon his death. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love v. ii. 283 I will take it upon my Death, I saw him come in with nothing but his Gown on. 1778 H. Brooke Charitable Assoc. i. ix, in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 230 I would take it, on my death, that she, herself, does not know who is the father of the child—poor soul! extracted from takev. < as lemmas
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