单词 | con and pro |
释义 | > as lemmascon and pro In pro and con, pro or con: see pro adv. I. Also rarely con and pro. ΚΠ ?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1218 in Poems (1981) 50 Contra et pro, strait argumentis thay resolue.] 1572 R. Harrison in tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes To Rdr. The matter throughly handled Pro and Con. 1667 Second Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 15 Many Historians argue Con and Pro. 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Jan. (1976) VI. 95 The rest..has never yet affected any human production ‘pro or con’. con and pro b. pro and con (also occasionally con and pro) in sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [adverb] pro et con1566 con and pro1572 pro and con1572 pro or con1595 to and again1656 1572 R. Harrison in tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes To Rdr. The matter throughly handled pro and con. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 581 So after long argument (pro & con, as you know) I brought him downe to your two butter-teeth, and them he would haue. View more context for this quotation 1667 Second Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 15 Many Historians argue Con and Pro. 1684 R. L'Estrange in Observator in Dialogue Pref. p. ii Upon a Full Computation of the Matter, Pro and Con; I Resolv'd, at last, to Put pen to paper. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 224. ⁋3 The whole Argument pro and con in the Case of the Morning-Gowns. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 111 Many Pamphlets pro & con. were publish'd on the Subject, and some by good Quakers in favour of Defence. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xxxvii I have no objection to collect the evidence pro and con. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xiv. 98 They don't count heads that time, but put off the formal discussion to the next Mote; and meantime arguments pro and con are flying about. 1913 E. P. Stewart Let. 8 Oct. in Lett. Woman Homesteader (1914) xxiv. 254 Even sweet corn cannot be successfully grown at this altitude, yet those old men argued pro and con till I know their throats must have ached. 1993 Amer. Heritage Nov. 18/2 This inveterate reader of books about the Kennedys, pro and con, failed to spot them. < as lemmas |
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