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ˈmight-be, n. and a.
[Cf. may-be, might-have-been.]
A. n. What might be; an unlikely possibility.
1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 306 [He] bringeth meer conceits and might bees for proving Arguments. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xii, Better than any fancied ‘might-be’ such as she was in the habit of opposing to the actual. 1891Lecky Poems 99 He sought not far The ‘might-be’ in the things that are.
B. adj. That might be; (remotely) possible.
1934R. Campbell Broken Record iv. 102 This was during the Douanier rage, when every painting-railway-porter was a might-be genius. 1941L. Macneice Plant & Phantom 26 A curfew..imposed Upon their might-be-wanderings; their might-be-applications For resurrection. 1956Auden Old Man's Road, With might-be maps of might-have-been campaigns. |