| 单词 | a crime, fact, etc of blackest or deepest dye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa crime, fact, etc. of blackest or deepest dye b. figurative. Chiefly in such phrases as a crime, fact, etc. of blackest or deepest dye, and the like. ΚΠ 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xvii. sig. K7v I neuer yet sawe griefe of so deep a Dye. 1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. F1 True vertues dye is such, That malice cannot stayne, nor enuy tuch. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 244 A Treason of an ugly dye. 1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 5. §1 A Fact..of as Glaring a Die as I have ever known. 1819 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 2 Mar. in Wks. (1846) III. 370 Crimes..of the blackest die. 1885 Manch. Examiner 16 June 4/7 He is a criminal of the deepest dye. < as lemmas |
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