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单词 giving way
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giving way
3. With adverbs, as giving back, giving in, giving over, giving out, giving up. Also giving way (see give v. 49).
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [noun] > giving in
yieldingc1425
yield1602
cession1607
yieldance1610
giving in1831
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 225/1 Gevyng over a thyng, resignation.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 23 To treat of some good accord touching the giving over of the castle.
1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 18 To make me resolue the giuing ouer that place.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pas d'escrevisse, a..giuing backe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 126 This is the Monkies own giuing out. View more context for this quotation
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Archit. I. 43 Their Platform..by the giving way of the Earth, became ruinous.
1804 Morning Post in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1805) VIII. 244 The ambiguous givings out, and the unambiguous promptings that are pent within.
1831 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 168 [He] seemed to think it very much of a giving in on the part of his brother agitators.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxx. 393 A giving up that had been most unhandsomely accepted by his landlord.
1884 Law Times Rep. 51 229/2 The immediate cause of the subsidence was the giving way of a stratum of soft mud.
1894 Daily News 9 Mar. 3/7 The cruiser..having broken down through the giving out of her cylinders.
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