单词 | fore heaven |
释义 | > as lemmasfore (also before, on, through) heaven a. by heaven (also heavens): expressing asseveration or (in weaker use simply) exclamation. Formerly also †fore (also before, on, through) heaven. Cf. by prep. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to heaven by heaven (also heavens)c1540 by the welkin1602 for heaven's sake1631 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 22 Seðe swerað on heofonan [OE Lindisf. on heofne, OE Rushw. be heofune; L. in caelo], he sweryð on Godes þrymsetle & on þam þe ofyr þæt sitt.] c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8313 I may not hate hym, by heuyn, þat me in hert tes. 1588 A. Munday tr. Palmerin D'Oliua i. iii. f. 6v By Heauen (sweete Ladie) either will I die this day, or remooue the greefe that seemeth so neere to touche you. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3 Not I, by heauen . View more context for this quotation 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. ii. sig. B4 Fore heau'n, I scarse can thinke you are my friend. View more context for this quotation 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. E 'Fore Heaven I think they are in earnest. 1671 A. Behn Amorous Prince iv. v. 63 By Heaven 'twas perfect truth. 1716 J. Addison tr. Ovid Met. in Wks. (1753) I. 176 By heav'n the story's true. 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote II. viii. iii. 187 ‘By Heavens!’ cried Glanville..‘there's no bearing this’. c1812 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) III. 141 By Heaven I can do nothing with the enclosed. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 341 in Idylls of King By Heaven that hears, I tell you the clean truth. 1887 A. C. Gunter Mr. Barnes (1888) xviii. 135 He commenced to strut and hector about..and cry, By Heavens. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings xiv. 226 By heavens! that dictator chap is a corker! He's a dictator clear down to his finger-ends. 1968 D. Moraes My Son's Father vi. 108 She is all agog, by heavens! 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 367 By Heaven, a Wilkesite! < as lemmas |
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