| 单词 | workhouse inmate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworkhouse inmate (b) In sense 2b, as workhouse brat, workhouse inmate, workhouse master, workhouse system, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1735 R. Savage Progress of Divine 14 Now with Churchwardens cribs the rev'rend Thief, From workhouse Pittance, and collection Brief. 1738 Enq. Causes Encrease Poor 9 The Favourers of the Work-house Scheme. 1834 E. Lytton Bulwer in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 22 891 In those states [of America] where a strict workhouse discipline was kept up. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 70 Then I'll whop yer when I get in,..my work'us brat! 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xi. 181 He would rob..a workhouse child of its breakfast, as the saying is. 1867 Westm. Rev. Jan. 72/1 Can it be supposed that we shall remodel our whole workhouse system, whatever theory we take of the right to relief? 1894 J. F. Oakeshott Humanizing of Poor Law 26 Nearly one-third of the workhouse inmates are sixty-five years old or over. 1902 Daily Chron. 8 May 6/2 Educated and medically-trained women as workhouse inspectors. 1925 J. J. Clarke Local Govt. 316 Workhouse infirmaries. 2007 Independent 10 Apr. 33/1 Don Ernsting was one of the last ‘workhouse masters’ and an innovator in the care of old people. < as lemmas |
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