单词 | headlongly |
释义 | headlonglyadv. Somewhat rare after 17th cent. = headlong adv. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > headlong swireforthc825 a-randounc1380 headlya1425 headlongsc1540 eavelong1567 headlong1576 rank1590 headlongly1595 precipitously1626 neck-break1631 precipitantly1656 precipitately1728 precipitatedly1770 torrentially1882 slap-dab1886 1595 A. Bacon Let. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1975) I. 290 If they fall into the liberty to dispence with the respectes of honor..they will hedlongly run the course. 1610 R. Abbot Old Way 29 Warning vs..to doe nothing headlongly and rashly. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iii. §2 In France the Lawes abound against Duells, to which they are headlongly apt. 1653 Consid. Dissolving Court of Chancery 16 They were not hurried, or headlongly driven on. 1839 Spectator 16 Mar. 248/1 Nothing that he could say would bend their Lordships back from the course which they seemed unreflectingly, heedlessly, headlongly bent upon pursuing. 1917 M. MacLane I, M. MacLane 47 The brazen, the headlongly honest and the artlessly frank. 2005 V. Yelensky in V. Roudometof et al. Eastern Orthodoxy in Global Age i. vi. 148 Societies do not worship themselves in the guise of religious cult. They worship themselves candidly and headlongly, without any masks or covers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1595 |
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