| 单词 | by fairness or foulness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby fairness or foulness † other with fairness or foulness, by fairness or foulness and variants: by fair means or foul. Cf. fair means n. at fair adj. and n.1 Compounds 1b. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 537 Other with fayrenes othir with fowlnes I shall brynge hym to thys courte. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxi. 202 a The duke nor constable wolde nat departe thens tyll they had the castell at their wyll, outher with fayrnesse or foulnesse. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 150 Be fairnes athir be foulnes. 1855 Boston Daily Atlas 4 May It intends, God or the devil helping, by fairness or foulness, by some means at least, to get office. < as lemmas |
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