单词 | greatest-souled |
释义 | > as lemmasgreatest-souled C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as greatest-souled, etc. Cf. great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1b, greater adj., adv., and n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1604 ‘W. Terilo’ Piece of Friar Bacons Prophesie sig. B2v Then neither Wolfe nor Foxe, But that did feare the Hound: Nor greatest headed Oxe But to the yoake was bound. 1618 A. Munday tr. N. de Herberay Amadis de Gaule iii. xiv. 145/2 Florestan (although he was one of the greatest-spirited men in the world) could not refraine from teares. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum v. ciii. 697 The greatest leafed Salomons Seale. 1697 T. Houghton Let. Memb. Parl. 4 I hope the Richest and Greatest monied Men will not be thought the fittest to consult of ways to encrease the Stock of Coin and Credit of the Kingdom. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 118 The Marquis of Worcester was generally reputed the greatest monied Man of the Kingdom. 1770 Candid Enq. Present Ruined State French Monarchy 70 The excise, and many other branches of the public revenue are farmed out to a society of sixty men of the greatest monied interest in the kingdom. 1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 306 For deepness of Cry, the largest, greatest mouthed..Hounds are recommended. 1869 H. E. H. Jerringham tr. T. Guiccioli Lord Byron jugé par le Témoins de sa Vie I. xiii. 285 The greatest-minded woman of our day (Madame G. Sand). 1888 R. G. Ingersoll Trial for Blasphemy 11 One of the greatest brained and greatest hearted men produced upon this continent. 1923 C. C. Catt & N. R. Shuler Woman Suffrage & Politics xviii. 268 The untiring, intrepid, never discouraged, never defeated, greatest-souled woman of the suffrage movement. 2012 K. Kreh I See Him 160 Scientists..have come up with this neat little story of God's greatest sized creatures without one shred of evidence. < as lemmas |
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