单词 | woe-day |
释义 | > as lemmaswoe-day C1. General attributive, as woe-day, woe-mark, woe-word, etc. Now rare (only in historical contexts).Some cases may be interpreted either as compounds of the noun or as showing uses of the adjective; cf. attributive uses at senses D. 1b, D. 1a, D. 2. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 226 Heren þet harde word þet wa word. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4364 Nu is icumen þin wa-dæi. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xix. 320 Þe king drank of his tent a wo drink [emended in ed. to an ouerdronk]. ?a1400 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 48 Ipsis sit Waleway, meschef tristissima woday. 1593 T. Lodge Life & Death William Long Beard sig. C3 Faith is thy best, thy beautie is a woe thing. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 6 What! must I undergoe this wo-thing, And suffer thus for doing nothing? 1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 11 It is a woe thing, When he need say no more then, nothing. 1789 Lady's Mag. May 269/1 Daphne has left me for a braggart's lye. And in the woe-tale does my fire decay. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 866 Wha, in his wae-days, were loyal to Charlie? 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 185 Woe-hurricanes beat ever at the gate. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 151 The distress..which was crushing their lives out of them, and stamping woe-marks over the land. 1864 J. Rorke Fancies on Photograph i. xiv. 19 The pits and woe-marks in his beamless face. 1884 Alliance Reformed Churches: Minutes & Proc. 3rd Gen. Council 501 Does there not come..a most urgent ‘Woe’, ‘Woe’, from that Woe land? 2003 R. Kuyvenhoven in A. A. den Hollander et al. Paratext & Megatext as Channels Jewish & Christian Trad. 6 A woe-word is spoken against the shepherds of Israel. < as lemmas |
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