| 单词 | to take the freedom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the freedom (to do something) b. The overstepping of due or customary bounds in speech or behaviour; undue familiarity; an instance of this, a liberty (esp. in to take the freedom (to do something)). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [noun] > disrespect by undue familiarity familiarityc1410 particularity1591 freedoma1625 over freedom1668 over-familiarity1676 a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ddd3v/2 Your eye..Is fixt upon this Captaine for his freedome, And happily you find his tongue too forward. 1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1660) 9 This Love, I have taken the freedom to style ‘Seraphic Love’. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune ii. i. 16 Let her alone to make the best use of those innocent Freedoms I allow her. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 402. ⁋1 The young Women who run into greater Freedoms with the Men. 1765 tr. Mme de Sévigné Lett. (ed. 2) II. cxxi. 144 He was at play the other day with the Count de Gramont, who, upon his taking too many freedoms, told him [etc.]. 1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title I. 194 Our modern misses; who..look offendedly grave at those freedoms in conversation. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 97 The splendid sofa, which, though made for rest, He then had thought it freedom to have press'd. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xvi. 287 When the officers do not eat or drink, or take too many freedoms with the seamen. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 48 I'll take the freedom of telling you you show a queer kind of gratitude to a man who's got into all this mess along of your affairs. 1939 K. Merrild Poet & Two Painters 227 The summary of these discussions, I have found that Lawrence later put into print, and I take the freedom to quote at length his view on these matters. < as lemmas |
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