单词 | true meant |
释义 | > as lemmastrue meant (a) Modifying an adjective (often a past participle) with the sense ‘truly, genuinely, really’, as true felt, true meant, true noble, etc. Cf. true-born adj., true-bred adj. Now rare and somewhat archaic. ΚΠ 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 32 That vertue and bowntie whyche nature hathe appointed to occupie the hartes of theym that bee true noble. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xi. sig. G7v Such tokens of true felt sorrow. 1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue Profit Imprisonm. sig. C4v This worlds fained sweet..Should be preferd before these seeming-sowres, that make vs Taste many true-sweet sweets. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 40 By Englands conquest, and by Fraunce's oth, Thou art the true made dowager of both. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. vii. 9 A true-deuoted Pilgrime is not weary To measure Kingdomes with his feeble steps. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 54 Of an infinite distance From his true meant designe. View more context for this quotation 1704 E. Settle Funeral Tear to Memory Earl of Burlington 9 There's the true-felt Loss, the killing Sound, The more then Babel-blast! 1815 L. Hunt Poet. Wks. (1923) 254 The notes..Suffice a true-touched ear. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Concl. 172 Why Not make her true, heroic, true-sublime? 2013 D. Wurtzebach Parrot Tavern ii. i. 55 The true-felt gratitude I had expected to feel, had wanted to feel, was made to wait. < as lemmas |
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