| 单词 | world's wealth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld's wealth C2. In the genitive. Preceding a noun, in world's aught (aucht n.), world's good, world's riches, world's shame, world's wealth, etc.: of or relating to the material world; temporal, earthly, secular; worldly. See also world's weal at weal n.1 1a, worldes winne at win n.2 2, world's wrack at wrack n.3 1b. Cf. of the world at Phrases 7. Now rare (in later use chiefly Scottish and archaic).In Old English in genitive form worulde (with the usual -e ending of a strong feminine noun).In Middle English frequently replacing earlier parallel formations at Compounds 1. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 2343 Sceolde [li]þend daga, æþeling ærgod ende gebidan, worulde lifes. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7483 Itt tacneþþ uss þatt alle þa..slæpenn fra þe weorrldess lusst & wakenn aȝȝ wiþþ criste. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 51 (MED) Hie weren wuniende in ierusalem..and hadden þe fulle of wurldes richeisse. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 61 Hit bieð maniȝe men..ðe for ðare worldes scame..hem al forswerieð. a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 129 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 143 Al þe worldes aite, Ne muen holden is lif. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 48 Hise word, ðat is hise wise sune, Ðe was of hin fer ear bi-foren Or ani werldes time boren. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 2199 He schal with worldes schame Himself and ek his love schame. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 2470 For coveitise and worldes pride. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 5755 (MED) This ladi wepte And thoghte that sche nevere kepte To ben a worldes womman more. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5605 He dredith nought..Though he haue lytel worldis goode, Mete, and drynke, and esy foode. c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 159 Forsakynge all worldes besynesse. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 674 All my werdez wele. 1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §22. m. 17 Persones of noo substaunce ne havur, not dredyng God nor worldez shame. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1384 Beues..shold be my worldus make. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 A barell bung ay at my bosum, Of varldis gud I bad na mair. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 73 Ah Palinodie, thou art a worldes childe: Who touches Pitch mought needes be defilde. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 27 Worlds shame. View more context for this quotation 1611 J. Davies in J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) 816 For whose deare birth, thou didst all ease refuse, Worlds-weal, and (being a Marchant) thy Receits. 1786 R. Burns Let. 3 Mar. in Wks. (1834) VII. 335 Now if ye're ane o' warl's folk, Wha rate the wearer by the cloak. 1787 R. Poems (new ed.) 323 My riches a's my penny-fee... But warl's gear ne'er troubles me. a1801 R. Gall in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum (1803) VI. 537 The chield wha boasts o' warld's walth. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 165 Let warld's gear gang. 1824 C. M. Sedgwick Redwood I. v. 137 ‘Nay, ye world's woman, let me alone,’ said he, extricating himself from her grasp. 1833 R. H. Dana Poems & Prose Writings 440 We are put into a right relation with the world; neither holding it in proud scorn, like the solitary man, nor being carried along by shifting and hurried feelings..like the world's man. 1901 R. W. Buchanan Poet. Wks. II. 395 Full of world's wisdom and life's variety, Always alive and alert is he. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xix. 162 To shield this loved one little head, Life, in world's mortal tumult..desires. < as lemmas |
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