单词 | high heaven |
释义 | > as lemmashigh heaven b. With emphatic or superlative force, in high God, high heaven. ΚΠ OE Riddle 40 22 Se ana god se þisne hean heofon healdeþ ond wealdeþ. OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxliv. 1 Ic me heahne god hæbbe to kyninge. lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 98 Se heage God gesihð þa eadmedan. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deeds vii. 48 The hiȝ God dwellith not in thingis maad bi hoond. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Hh2 Whence all the world deriues the glorious Features of beautie, and all shapes select, With which high God his workmanship hath deckt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 124 Man, proud man, Drest in a little briefe authoritie..Plaies such phantastique tricks before high heauen, As makes the Angels weepe. View more context for this quotation 1707 S. Cobb Poems 51 Whene'er High God shall whet his angry Sword, The Rising Sun shall see True Faith restor'd. 1833 J. E. Alexander Transatlantic Sketches II. i. 4 ‘They won't be able to face you..without a fleet.’ ‘Oh! tarnation, no..nothing under high heaven; we will knock h—ll out of them.’ 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 254 Hereafter..We two may meet before high God. 1915 D. A. Mackenzie Myths Babylonia & Assyria vii. 147 Then he made the abode of Ea in the deep, and the abode of Anu in high heaven. a1935 W. Lewis Journey into Barbary (1983) 214 A position of abject submission to a High God. 1997 T. Petsinis French Mathematician (1998) xx. 186 The acrid stench of sewers rising to high heaven. < as lemmas |
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