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单词 without reason
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without reason
o. without reason.
(a) Wrongly, senselessly; immoderately. Also with right. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adverb] > without good reason
without reasona1382
unprobably1599
for reasons (also some reason) best known to oneself1600
groundlessly1661
baselessly1843
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xiv. 3 To the coueitous man, and hard, withoute resoun [L. sine ratione] is substaunce.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16296 Qui smites þou me wit-vten right resun.
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 53 In this is defendid al vnleifful vsurpacion of othir mennys thingis, as..al thing takin be force and be lordschip of the pepil withoute reson.
1484 W. Caxton Life of Æsop in Fables of Æsop 2 b He..went in without rayson and hath eten al the fygges.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1422 (MED) But longe delayed it is withowte resone.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 629 This multitude..spoyled, robbed and rifled, without reason or measure.
1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 213 They rate the goods without reason as they lust themselues.
(b) Without justification. Also with good.Compare without rhyme or reason at rhyme n. Phrases 2. [Perhaps after Middle French sans raison without justification (c1170 in Old French as sanz reisun).]
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > without cause or reason
without reasona1387
à propos de bottes1757
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 399 Þe auctoritees of holy Scripture beeþ al oon,..and God dooþ no þing wiþoute resoun.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 2074 Kyng Steuen..þat withouten reson, of þis lond had þe state & conquered þe coroun.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 2 Of the whiche there come to diuerse gret defames and sclaundres withoute cause and reson.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xi. 42 They fayned, no fable without reason For reasonable is all theyr moralyte.
1595 Problemes of Aristotle sig. I6 Nature doth make nothing without reason or in vaine.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 398 Yet hath not God giuen their beeing without good and iust reason.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xii. 114 The women, so used to cry without grief, as they are to laugh without reason..must needs pull out their handkerchiefs.
1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) iii. 30 It is very wrong in you to make your neighbours discontented without reason.
1876 tr. P. Blaserna Theory Sound iii. 46 The poets speak often, and not without reason, of the harmony of the waves.
1958 P. Oliver in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz i. 19 Not without good reason the pre-Emancipation planter looked on the spirituals with some suspicion.
2003 Boston Sunday Globe 16 Nov. (Metropolitan ed.) b7/2 The ‘flash mob’ phenomenon, where hundreds of people gather..and disperse quickly, seemingly without reason.
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