| 单词 | would god |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswould God P3. would God (also God would, Christ would): expressing earnest desire or longing, with dependent clause; ‘O that God would’, ‘O that it were God's will’. Similarly would the gods. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > wishing > wish [phrase] Christ wouldeOE God wouldeOE lief I were1297 to hope (also wish, etc.) to Christa1375 to wish to Godc1385 willc1460 would to God (also Heaven)c1460 goodness1623 eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) viii. 39 Eala, þær hit wurde, oðþe wolde God, þæt on eorðan nu ussa tida..wæren æghwæs swelce. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 6868 Now wold god..Þat he were here in mi beylie! 1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 76 (MED) Wolde god i were worþi His blisful sone to bere. c1400 ( Canticum Creatione l. 66 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 125 Wolde god ded y wore! a1500 in Anglia (1910) 33 367 Chryst wolt the ffuger of here swete face were pyctored where euer I dwell. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Aiv Wold good it were so vsyd at this day. 1678 Lively Orac. iv. §27. 292 Would God none but the Romanist were impeachable of this detention of Scripture. 1890 E. Dowson Let. 14 Mar. (1967) 142 Would the gods it were over. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 227 Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin! < as lemmas |
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