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单词 by your leave
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by your leaven.

Etymology: < phrase by your leave: see leave n.1 Phrases 1a.
An expression of apology for not having asked permission; the asking of permission.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > courteous expressions
I pray you (also thee, ye)c1330
I praya1350
pray you (also thee, ye)c1439
by your leave1914
1914 H. R. Martin Barnabetta xii. 106 She was sportively handling huge sums like this without a By-Your-Leave.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters i. 13 ‘With not even a by your leave. You're a claim jumper,’ she said.
1936 Scrutiny V. 38 Jung, indeed, insists that he is a bold man nowadays who would roundly declare, without so much as by-your-leave from the doctor, that he is altogether free of it [sc. neurosis].
1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair viii. 90 He picked Robert's glass out of his hand without a by-your-leave and rose to fill it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

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by your leave
c. in by your leave, by consent, etc.
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a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2865 God..of israel Ðe bode sente..Ðat bi ði leue hise folc vt-fare.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 62 By youre leue I shal hym quyte anon.
1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xxvii. iii His heire to been by their bothes assent.
1558 Queen Elizabeth I in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. App. i Elizabeth, by the grace of God, queen of England, Fraunce and Ireland.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 26 Giuen by authority.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iii. 20 By the doctor's allowance, I inclose it to you.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 153 The old civil polity was, therefore, by the general consent of both the great parties, re-established.
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by your leave
a. by your leave: used as a courteous addition to something said or implied, esp. as an apology for taking a liberty; often ironically used when some remark is made which will be unwelcome to the person addressed. Also with other possessives, in indirect speech or argumentation. Now archaic or literary.See also by your leave n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > by permission of
by your leavec1330
with your leavea1400
under the reverence of1533
by (also with) (a person's) patience1588
c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) l. 472 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 302 (MED) He Bi þi leue wolde iuste wiȝ þe.
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 132 Þen seide þe Preost, ‘sone, be þi leue I moste seie forþ my seruise.’
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 62 By youre leue I shal hym quyte anon.
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature ii. sig. f.iv By your leue I wyll depart To make redy thys gere.
1589 R. Baker in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 139 This disease, which, by your leaue, the Scuruie men doe call.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner P7v [Bu]ttes (by thy leaue) Ile be a Guest of thine.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 313 But by their leaues these reasons are very weake.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour v. i. sig. K1v King, by your leave, I have wip'd your royall nose.
1644 Spie 5 Feb. 17 We..instead of Rebels, have called them..Woodheads, (a wooden Conceit by my brother Britannicus his leave).
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 36 The King by his leave cannot coine English as he could Mony.
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 39 Rynt ye: By your leave, stand handsomly.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 32 If the French King Invade without putting off his Hat, or saying, by your lieve.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 21 Aug. 2/1 By my Correspondent's good leave, I can by no means consent.
1756 W. Guthrie tr. Quintilian Inst. Eloquence II. vi. iii. 68 This is the very Character of Wit. But, by his Leave, there may be a certain Kind of jocular Wit, which is absolutely inconsistent with Urbanity.
1764 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Moral Tales I. 245 What then, by your leave, is this chimerical condition which you have so much at heart?
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 22 The solitary passenger was startled by the chairmen's cry of ‘By your leave there!’ as two came trotting past him.
1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 35 I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!
1925 Poet Lore 36 17 By your leave, we can't go!
1988 L. F. Banfield & H. C. Banfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. (1990) Pref. 6 These two causes (may it be said by their leave) appear to me altogether unworthy of great men.
2015 D. Nicholas Throne of Darkness xvi. 130 By your leave, Magister Percival, a word with you?
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