单词 | how chance |
释义 | > as lemmashow chance 5. how chance was formerly used in questions for ‘how chances it that’, ‘how is (was) it that’.Here chance takes no inflection, and almost assumes the character of an adverb. Cf. chance adv. ΚΠ a1555 H. Latimer Frutefull Serm. (1572) ii. f. 189v How chaunce you go not to the seruice vpon the holy dayes? a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C3 How chance this was not done before? 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 134 How chance my brother Troylus went not? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 209 How chance you went not with Mr Slender? View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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