单词 | for most part |
释义 | > as lemmasfor (the) most part (c) for (the) most part: as regards the greatest or greater part; in most cases, on the whole, mostly. for the more part: as regards the greater part; on the whole, usually, mainly, mostly (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > for the most part for the more party1372 for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387 for the more partc1405 for (the) most partc1405 much dealc1425 in substancea1450 for the mostc1531 in (also for) the generality1580 for the general1581 in (also for, on, upon) the maina1591 largely1594 principally1600 in chiefa1616 mainly1640 nine times (parts, etc.) out of (also in, of) ten1648 greatly1742 as a rule1828 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 4 For the moore part they lowe and pleyde. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 138 Þei ben all, for the moste part, all Pygmeyes. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 333 The venemous bestes, that venyme all folke, are frendes [read fendes] that for the more parte distroien all man kynde. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. vi. 65 Words monosillable which be for the more part our naturall Saxon English. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 205 The auld fundationis,..and utheris wreittis,..of kirklandis war for the maist pairt distroyed. 1685 A. Lovell tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Relig. Eastern Nations xii. 123 Bishopricks and Monasteries,..for most Part, in great Disorder. a1760 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) vii. 64 The Umboth tythes are for the most part a rental tythe. 1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. viii. 166 The shops were for the most part closed. 1898 F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 6 The strip-owners are for the more part colleges. 1936 C. Day Life with Father 149 For the most part nobody wrote to me when I was a small boy except firms whose advertisements I had read in the Youth's Companion. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 97 (caption) The seas were probably, for most part, shallow as for example the Belt Series Sea in the west. 2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 Apr. e3/3 For the most part, consumers are perfectly content with mass manufacturing. < as lemmas |
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