| 单词 | grains of allowance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrains of allowance 9. In figurative applications of senses 7, 8: the smallest possible quantity; esp. in negative contexts. For the phrase grains of allowance cf. quot. 1672 at sense 8. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 139 I myȝte gete no greyne of his grete wittis. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clifford ii. 3 My faultes be out so playne..That though I would I can not hide a grayne. 1593 M. Drayton Idea v. sig. E2v If there be remayning but a grayne, Of the olde stocke of famous poesie. 1629 G. Chapman tr. Juvenal Fifth Satyre in Iustification Nero 16 His forme and prime..May well allow him some few Graines of pride. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 10 The lonelines which leads him still powerfully to seek a fit help, hath not the least grain of a sin in it. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Pet. i. 6) When our hearts grow a grain too light, God seeth it but needfull to make us heavy through manifold temptations. 1648 Rous Balm of Love 10 Thou must give every Saint those graines of allowance which the Apostle gives him. 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 98 The Minor are the words of Christ..and need not a graine of allowance. 1676 J. Dryden Dram. Wks. IV. 75 This Honesty of theirs ought to have many Grains for its Allowance. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 9 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 221 A..stupid Blockhead, without one Grain of Learning. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 1. 5 Your Man..might have given some Grains of Allowance to a good Droll for being a bad Politician. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 69 He had not a Grain of Pride, or Vanity, in his whole Composition. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i A little less simplicity with a grain or two more sincerity. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 360 Nor is it probable that it ever had a grain of truth in it. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxxiii. 217 An inferior race, whose evidence, at best, would have to be taken with many grains of allowance. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 391 Wedded life without a grain of love. < as lemmas |
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