| 单词 | above price |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabove (also beyond, without) (all) price P2. above (also beyond, without) (all) price: having a value beyond all price or equivalent; priceless, invaluable. ΚΠ 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxxii. f. 79v His girdell,..made of Golde and Stone that the same was aboue all price [It. chenon haueua prezzo; Port. (1551) qua não tinha preço, (1554) que era cousa sem preço]. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 331 A bowle, whose value he did hold Beyond all price. a1674 T. Traherne Innocence in Poems (1966) 12 All was beyond all Bound and Price. 1725 Sober Whig 7 The Value of such a Constitution must be above all Price. 1781 W. Cowper Friendship 56 But will Sincerity suffice? It is indeed above all price, And must be made the basis. 1805 Times 19 Sept. 3/2 The value in his estimation was beyond price, but intrinsically the box was worth 300l. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 220 in Idylls of King A robe Of samite without price..clung about her lissome limbs. 1878 H. Grote Let. 15 Aug. in T. H. Lewin Lewin Lett. (1909) II. v. 343 Luckily I am able to read several hours out of the day, which is beyond price to one like myself. 1906 J. London Wit of Porportuk in Lost Face 236 She was above price. I did not measure her in gold-dust. 1991 Apollo Mar. 152/1 The most expensive commodity, art, which is itself forever beyond price. < as lemmas |
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