单词 | true-speaking |
释义 | > as lemmastrue-speaking b. As the second element of various combinations, as evil-speaking, fair-speaking, great-speaking, public-speaking, true-speaking. †Also absol. ΚΠ c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xliii. 18 Fram þe voice of þe reproceand and þe oȝains spekand. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1268 A knyght..That worthy was and wel spekyng. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms xi. 4 The Lorde destrie..the greet spekynge tunge. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 211 That he bene corteyse, wel Spekynge, and eloquente. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 256 The opinion of any one true speaking man. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pendu A smooth, glib, eloquent, or well speaking tongue. 1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 517 To grapple with our fair~speaking adversaries. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iii. 350 The public-speaking woman at the Palais Royal. true-speaking (b) Modifying a present participle with the sense ‘in a truthful, honest, or accurate manner’, as true-meaning, true-dealing, true-speaking, etc. Now somewhat archaic. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Iustus, a iuste or rightuous man, an vpright and true meanynge manne. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 256 The opinion of any one true speaking man. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 55 O vpright, iust, and true disposing God. View more context for this quotation 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale To Rdr. sig. A4 A true spelling Printer. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxxii. sig. F2 Thy true telling friend. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Larkham Attributes of God Vnfolded i. 142 They were and are Orthodox and true judging men. 1749 J. Campbell tr. Artephius in tr. J. H. Cohausen Hermippus Redivivus (ed. 2) 167 I had learned all the art and perfect science in the books of the true speaking Hermes. 1859 J. Hinton Man & his Dwelling Place iii. iii. 216 How should a true-seeing man speak of them otherwise? 1907 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 3/2 These true-ringing, rough-hewn epistles. 1948 R. Graves Coll. Poems 1914–1947 227 Trees, true-divining trees, Discover all your poet asks, Drumming on his brow. 1994 I. Doig in M. C. Blew Balsamroot (dust-jacket) The true-dealing clarity of her words. 2015 M. W. Bates Birth of Trinity iii. 112 Athanasius believes the eunuch was particularly concerned with theodramatic matters of first import—the time, subject matter, and especially the correct identification of the true speaking prosopon. < as lemmas |
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