| 单词 | to woad impudence in a person's forehead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto woad impudence (also shamelessness, etc.) in a person's forehead b. transitive. spec. In figurative uses with reference to the stain of sin, esp., in to woad impudence (also shamelessness, etc.) in a person's forehead. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] dyea1000 bedyea1522 intinct1547 imbue1594 double-dye1602 woad1642 dip1667 1642 N. Homes Peasants Price of Spirituall Liberty 50 The blushing once for sin, hath woaded an impudency in their faces. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxi. 37) 511 Sin had woaded shamelesnes in their fore-heads. 1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis Ode xvii. 67 The staines of sinne I see Are oaded all, or di'd in graine. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 99 The hypocrite is not thus woaded with impudency, to sinne at noone day. 1667 O. Heywood Heart-treasure viii. 77 Many persons, who have woaded an impudence in their foreheads by constant sinning. < as lemmas |
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