单词 | free-handling |
释义 | > as lemmasfree-handling ΚΠ 1860 Ess. & Rev. To Rdr. The advantage derivable to the cause of religious and moral truth, from a free handling, in a becoming spirit, of subjects peculiarly liable to suffer by the repetition of conventional language, and from traditional methods of treatment. 1861 Macmillan's Mag. May 43/1 The fact..could hardly fail to..cause great doubts as to the safety and wisdom of the ‘free handling’ which the volume [sc. Essays and Reviews] recommends and exemplifies. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) ii. xii. 144 If you will but nullify by criticism and free-handling the truth on Atonement. < as lemmas |
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