| 单词 | without comparison |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithout comparison b. esp. in the phrases without comparison, out of all comparison, beyond all comparison. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 81 Þe ymage of his sseppere, þet is uayr wyþoute comparysoun. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 55 Eneas appyered aboue all the other wythout ony comparyson the most fayre. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 165 When Cortez saw that beautifull thing, his joy was without comparison. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 712 Out of all comparison, the stronger, and more dangerous operation of the two. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 95 The claims of one man stood forth beyond all comparison. without comparison d. In such phrases as without comparison, without controversy, without doubt, †without nay, etc. the meaning apparently varies between ‘beyond’ (sense 2 or 2c) and ‘involving the absence of’, ‘not admitting of’, ‘so that there is or can be no…’. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 81 Þe ymage of his sseppere, þet is uayr wyþoute comparysoun. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2053 Cham wit-outen dout Sal be his brothers vnderlote. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 55 Eneas appyered aboue all the other wythout ony comparyson the most fayre. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 218 He without al doubt or controuersy, was very Emperor of al Britayn. 1557 New Test. (Geneva) Heb. vii. 7 Without all nay, he which is lesse, receaueth blessyng of hym which is greater. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 165 When Cortez saw that beautifull thing, his joy was without comparison. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ss3 These things are without Contradiction, and could not otherwise be. View more context for this quotation 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 155 [My love of her] was without compare, had hers not equald it. < as lemmas |
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