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单词 hearsay author
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hearsay author
a. attributive, passing on one side into an adj., on the other giving rise to combinations: (a) Of the nature of hearsay; (b) founded or depending upon what one has heard said, but not within one's direct knowledge, as hearsay account, hearsay censure, hearsay declaration, hearsay knowledge, hearsay report, hearsay rumour, hearsay tale; (c) of hearsay, speaking from hearsay, as hearsay author, hearsay babbler, hearsay witness, †hearsay-man.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adjective] > of or relating to chat > of or relating to gossip or rumour
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H3 [Those] Whose metall stiff he knew he could not bende With hear-say, pictures or a window looke.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 18v I can in these Tynne cases, plead but a hearesay experience.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 171 An hearsay account by Bellonius. View more context for this quotation
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 361 These Hear~say-men or Book-Philosophers, called, The Learned, are as ignorant as any..of the true knowledge of God in them~selves.
1738 T. Birch Life Milton App., in J. Milton Wks. I. 94 All the Evidence was two hear-say Depositions taken in 1642, from Persons who were told so by the common Soldiers of the Irish.
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 13 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 254 We had both of us an hearsay knowledge of each other.
1814 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. i. 44 The report of hearsay witnesses.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 149 To promulgate hearsay reports.
1826 in Sheridaniana 315 The crude opinions of the hearsay babbler.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 143 She blamed herself for telling hearsay tales.
extracted from hearsayn.
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