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单词 your most obedient
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your most obedient
c. your (most) obedient servant (etc.): used as a conventional expression of courtesy and respect, esp. at the close of a letter or (formerly) in taking leave of someone; hence used generally as a way of referring to oneself. Also simply your most obedient. Now chiefly archaic.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > conventional or deferential
your servitorc1405
beadsman1420
your servant1438
your (most) obedient servant (etc.)1543
rest1572
respects1631
1543 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 19 Vrytin..be your grace..mast obedient servitour.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxvij This subscribed by your humble and obedient sonne Frances.
1618 W. Barclay Nature & Effects Well at King-horne sig. Avij So ceasing to prosecute this warsh matter of water, I will never cease to continue Your L. most humble and obedient seruitour.
1681 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 66 I am so entirely myself as being, Sir, Your most obedient and most devoted servant, Z. Isham.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. v. 230 I shall make no Disturbance before the Ladies. I am very well satisfied. Your humble Servant, Sir; Lady Bellaston, your most obedient . View more context for this quotation
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 4 Snake. Mr. Surface, your most obedient. (Exit.) Joseph. Mr. Snake, your most obedient.
c1820 in Corr. J. Sinclair (1831) II. 400 Allow me to..subscribe myself..your obedient, humble servant, J. R. Brancaleoni.
1845 W. D. Macray Man. Brit. Historians Ded. To the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel,..this volume is..dedicated, by his obedient and obliged servant.
1885 Times 24 Nov. 10/4 You will greatly oblige, Sir, Your obedient servant.
1930 L. Hutchinson Let. 11 Jan. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 27 But I decline to accept ‘Victorian's’ dictum that I must sign myself ‘always’ (or even for a moment) ‘your obedient servant’.
1946 E. Gray Man Midwife 59 The two rooms and the closet will furnish yr. obdt. with lecture rooms and office.
1993 Spy (N.Y.) Sept. 80/3 The Un-British Crossword, which your obedient servant inaugurated in the first issue of SPY back in October 1986..is meant to be Englishly nifty, yes, but also robustly American.
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