单词 | deathbed conversion |
释义 | > as lemmasdeathbed conversion a. General attributive, as deathbed conversion, deathbed scene, etc. Also in extended use with the sense ‘last-minute, belated’ (see also Compounds b). ΚΠ 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. L2v The Sonne kneeld by his Fathers death-bed side. 1606 H. Greenwood Treat. Daye of Iudgem. sig. F3 (heading) A short death-bed dialogue. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Lock ii, in Misc. Poems 374 There broken Vows, and Death-bed Alms are found. a1731 R. Manning Moral Entertainments (1742) I. vi. 79 A meer Death-bed Conversion..ought always to be suspected. 1775 J. Fleetwood Christian's Dict. at Death Death bed scenes have often made lasting impressions on the living. 1816 W. Scott Tales my Landlord Introd. To answer funeral and deathbed expenses. 1829 J. S. Taylor Roscommon Claim of Peerage 24 He makes this death-bed admission of a fact, which he had concealed from many of his relations. 1860 Monthly Packet July 15 You do not mean to say that a death-bed pardon is of no use? 1929 Boys' Life Mar. 21/2 Rodney's mother left her son one thing—in a deathbed letter she cautioned him to ‘Be a good Scout, always’. 1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic iv. 129 Have deathbed scenes ceased to hold the imagination because so many of them take place in hospitals? 2011 L. R. Brown World on Edge i. 4 In something akin to a deathbed conversion, Russia's president was abandoning his country's position as a climate change denier. < as lemmas |
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