| 单词 | within a word | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithin a word  a.  In the limits of (a period of time); most usually, before the end of, after not more than; also, since the beginning of, not more than…ago; or gen. between the beginning and end of, in the course of, during. So  †within a word = as soon as a word was uttered, at a word. ΚΠ c1175    Early Eng. Homilies 		(Vesp.)	 89  				Wiðinnen feower wucan comen [hi] to him. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 2473  				Wið-innen a lut ȝeren Brennes hine bi-ðohte. c1290    Beket 1500 in  S. Eng. Leg. 149  				Euerech Abbod of greie Monekes to þulke chapitle cam With-Inne þre ȝer. 1303    R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7047  				Sone aftyrward, with-yn a lytyl. 1377    W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 149  				He hath wedded a wyf with-Inne þis syx monethes. c1385    G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 103  				I fel a-slepe with-Inne an our or two. ?a1425    Mandeville's Trav. 		(Egerton)	 		(1889)	 xxv. 119  				He schall hafe worde within a day and a nyght. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Acts i. A  				Ye shalbe baptysed wt ye holy goost, & that within this few dayes. 1548    W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. b v b  				How many meanes and weys hath my lord Protectours grace, within his tyme of gouernaunce..attempted..to shonne these warres. 1605    F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning  ii. sig. Bb3  				Things..which may be done in succession of ages, though not within the houre-glasse of one mans  life.       View more context for this quotation 1651    tr.  J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 		(1653)	 79  				If the Owner do not come within a year and a day. 1766    R. Griffith  & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 247  				I am, within these three Days, recovering Spirits and Appetite. 1822    Act 3 Geo. IV c. 39 §1  				Within Twenty one Days after the Execution of such Warrant of Attorney. 1869    ‘M. Twain’ New Pilgr. Progr. 		(1870)	 xi. 85  				The cry went abroad of ‘Ten minutes to dress for breakfast!’.. I was dressed within the ten minutes. 1871    E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xix. 361  				One of which was standing within the present generation. 1918    Act 8 George V c. 2 		(title)	  				The Hours within which Marriages may be lawfully solemnized. < as lemmas | 
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