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单词 whether or no
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whether or no
9. whether or no (no adv.1 4), less frequently not.
a. as conjunctive phr. introducing a subordinate interrog. clause, as in 3.
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1650 R. Sanderson Cases Conscience (1678) 93 The next enquiry must be, Whether or no the words of the Engagement will reasonably bear such a construction.
a1657 W. Mure Hist. Rowallane in Wks. (1898) II. 240 Not verie certaine wheyr or not brethren yrof at one & the same time, do beare the armes of the paternall coat.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 92. ¶5 Whether or no they are real Husbands or personated ones I cannot tell.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ix. 220 What matters whether or no I make my way in life.
1871 J. Morley J. de Maistre in Crit. Misc. 174 As Protestants always ask of so much of Catholicism as they have dropped, whether or no it is true.
b. introducing a qualifying clause, as in 8.
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1665 R. Boyle Disc. ii. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. C6 They..help to make the man good, whether or no they make his style be thought so.
1868 A. C. Swinburne W. Blake 88 The shape or style of workmanship each artist is bound to look to, whether or no he may..trouble himself about the moral..bearings of his work.
c. elliptical as adv.phr. In any case, at all events.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adverb] > in any case
algatec1330
for any chancea1400
at (also in) all events1550
howsoever1586
in any event1692
oncea1715
whether or no1784
for any sake1824
at any event1838
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > at all events, at any rate
alwayc1405
alwaysa1413
of all hands1548
when all is said and done?1570
after all1590
howevera1616
at all rates1667
at any rate1730
whether or no1784
anyhow1799
anyways1828
anyhows1830
anyway1832
any road1855
anywise1859
whatever1870
any old how1900
anyhoo1924
nohow1926
anyroads1929
1784 Unfortunate Sensibility I. 182 Whether or no, this coat shall be my favourite coat.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxviii. 191 Was it natural that at that instant, without any previous impulse or design, Kit should kiss Barbara? He did it, whether or no.
1873 J. Morley Struggle for National Educ. 79 You may say that this is to degrade the state. Possibly. But whether or no, this is the principle already..acted upon.
1904 S. J. Weyman Abbess of Vlaye xiii ‘God help us whether or no!’ the Vicomte answered in senile anger.
extracted from whetherpron.adj.n.conj.
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