单词 | double heart |
释义 | > as lemmasdouble heart double heart n. indicating duplicity or insincerity; see sense A. 5, and cf. heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 2g(a). ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxv. 245 Ðonne ðæt ierre ðæs ytemestan domes..arafað ðæt cliwen ðære twifaldan heortan.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 1 Chron. xii. 33 Fyfty thousand camen in to help, not in double hert. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) 450 A double herte, fair ffeyned contenaunce, A pretens face, treble in his dalyaunce. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xi. 2 Thai ere swikil lippes..for thai speke in hert & thurgh hert that is in dubbil hert. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a6v Men of two harts, or of a double heart. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 261 He lent it [sc. his heart] me awhile, and I gaue him vse for it, a double heart . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xii. 33 They were not of double heart [Heb. without a heart and a heart] . View more context for this quotation 1778 J. Matlock Apostasy 147 To dissemble with the truth, and having a double heart, this leads men into that soul-damning sin the sin of hypocrisy. 1861 R. M. Ballantyne Dog Crusoe & his Master xix. 254 I have often told you so when you would not listen, and when you told me that I had a double heart, and told lies. You were wrong when you said this. 1896 New Ireland Rev. Feb. 365 Aodh feigned good will and good cheer. For sooth it was he who had a double heart, for the destruction that he planned was ripe. 1915 E. C. Matthews Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom & Others 80 Instead of a single heart, he has a double heart. He is one thing before his master's face, but another thing behind his back. < as lemmas |
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