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单词 to take leave to do something
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to take leave to do something
(b) formal to take leave to do something: to take the liberty of (doing something), to presume to (do something); often as a courteous or ironic introduction to the statement of an action; cf. beg leave at beg v. 3a.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (intransitive)] > assume permission
to take leave to do something1525
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxiiiiv/2 Whan all was done the lordes toke leaue to departe.
1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill (new ed.) f. 208 Which vice many cry out vpon in others, and yet take leaue to do it themselues without controlment.
1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster i. 4 Kissing your white hand Mistresse I take leaue, to, thanke your royall Father.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. ii. 183 I have taken leave to name it, the Acetary.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub x. 191 I will here take Leave to glance a few Innuendo's.
1796 F. Higgins Let. 15 Aug. in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 94 I take leave to also suggest to you Sir, that the want..might be easily remedyed by a plan I shall send you.
1814 T. S. Raffles Substance of Minute on Java 100 I take leave to observe, that the state of landed tenure here is very different from what it is reported to be in other parts of Java.
1834 M. Edgeworth Helen III. v. 93 We must take leave to pause one moment to remark..that the first little fib in which Lady Cecilia..indulged herself..occasioned her..a good deal of..trouble.
1887 Westm. Rev. June 280 When he assures us that these Belfast rowdies are the most intelligent of the Irish people, we take leave to exercise our own judgment a little.
1928 Sat. Rev. 28 July 127/1 Stephen has many excellent qualities both of heart and head, though whether her sufferings would have cradled her into a first-rate novelist we take leave to doubt.
1938 ‘M. Innes’ Lament for Maker i. viii. 53 We may take leave to to think the silly body stood there in the sleet and cursed the lure of the wanderer roundly.
2003 Times 22 July 39/4 I take leave to doubt whether his columns always come direct from his own pen.
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