单词 | by good right |
释义 | > as lemmasby good right (e) by right: justly; rightfully; if right were done. Cf. by rights at Phrases 1b(g). In early use also †by good right. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [phrase] with (also mid) righteOE by right?a1160 skillc1250 of right?c1450 by rights1738 ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Eustace..wende to bigæton Normandi þærþurh, oc he spedde litel & be gode rihte, for he was an yuel man. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 59 (MED) Þet compleþ þet spoushod..Þat hyt ne may be ondon..By ryȝte. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 347 Leue it nouȝte, lucifer, aȝeine þe lawe I fecche hem, But bi riȝt & by resoun [v.r. by reson and right; C. þorgh ryght and reson] raunceoun here my lyges. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 774 Be ryght thou muste be dede, for thou haste slayne oure lorde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xxiii. 41 And truly we are therin by right, for we receaue acordinge to oure dedes. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 143 Haly is his name be richt. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 177 I should haue beene a woman by right . View more context for this quotation 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxiii. 120 The story..is certainly out of its place here; for by right it should come in..amongst the anecdotes of my uncle Toby's amours. 1865 J. H. Newman Hist. my Relig. Opinions iv. 203 I had sometimes trusted their [sc. Anglican divines'] quotations... I had used words or made statements, which by right I ought rigidly to have examined myself. 1956 A. J. Lerner My Fair Lady (1958) i. i. 8 By right she should be taken out and hung For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue! 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 230 By right there ought to have been cheering and dancing in Madeira Gardens for weeks on end. by (†good, etc.) right (b) by (†good, etc.) right: according to legal or moral entitlement; (also) = of right at Phrases 1b(i). Also occasionally by rights. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > by right [phrase] with (also mid) righteOE by (good, etc.) rightc1330 of righta1425 by right ofc1434 in right of1439 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [phrase] on (also upon) righteOE by (good, etc.) rightc1330 to rightsc1330 well and truly1348 of very (due) right?a1366 to righta1382 at right1487 in one's way1691 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [phrase] > by right or with justifiable claim with (also mid) righteOE by (good, etc.) rightc1330 of righta1425 by rights1738 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 990 He it [sc. a child] cristned... Þe fende þerof hadde grame, For þai lese þer þe miȝt Þat þai wende to haue bi riȝt. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 343 (MED) Þei [sc. the poor] han heritage in heuene, and bi trewe riȝte. c1466 in Archaeologia (1887) 50 52 Askynge..their Casuallys and other thynges þt long to hem be right ameabully. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiv. sig. Mv Whiche praise with the honour therevnto due, as inheritaunce discendeth by righte vnto his most noble sonne. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxviij [He] affirmed the kyngdome to be his by good right. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 169 The sorrow that I haue by right is yours. View more context for this quotation c1616 W. Mure Misc. Poems xx. 10 Pretending tytyls..By ry[ch]t hereditar to serve thy grace. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 325 Owe not all Creatures by just right to thee Duty and Service? View more context for this quotation 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. Introd. 87 The Turtle-fishery..thought..to be ours by right... The Turtle-fishing..pretended to by the French of the Island Tortugas. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 271 One man then is guardian by right: another man comes and makes himself so by usurpation. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 32 Days when the gentry of England were by due right the leaders of the people. 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Oct. 207/1 Any little matters which ought to be ours by rights. 1901 Times 3 July 5/6 They..enter a protestation ‘saving to themselves and their successors all such rights in judicature as they have by law and by right ought to have’. 1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic iv. 137 Many servants had no holiday by right, except the middle Sunday of Lent, called Mothering Sunday. 1994 Amer. Spectator June 30/2 Such employees are permanent staff only by tradition, not by right, and the Clintons apparently think nothing of..replacing White House ushers, telephone operators, correspondence clerks, and chefs. < as lemmas |
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