| 单词 | town living |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown living town living n. (a) an ecclesiastical benefice in a town (see living n.2 2); (b) the fact of living in a town; town life. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > the town town living1708 urbanism1884 society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > in a town town living1708 1708 J. Swift Let. 9 Nov. in Wks. (1763) XI. 20 Until your Grace and the Dean of St. Patrick's shall think fit to dispose of that poor Town-Living in my Favour. 1755 Monitor (1756) I. 183 Town living runs high, even in necessaries; and as to pleasures, though they are not necessaries, yet they are deemed such by young men. 1832 J. J. Blunt Reformation in Eng. iv. 65 Thus it came to pass that town livings (contrary to all reason) are at present, of all others, the poorest. 1863 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 290 I suppose Town-living makes one alive to such a Change. 1939 S. L. Gwynn H. Grattan & his Times ii. 7 Swift had manœuvred both Robin and Jack into good town livings. 1998 R. Finnegan Tales of City ii. 19 The original free state of nature yielding to..alienation and the constrictions of town living. < as lemmas |
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