单词 | if so were that |
释义 | > as lemmasif so were that e. if so be (that), if it happen that, supposing that: a somewhat rhetorical equivalent of simple ‘if’. archaic and dialect. (Also occasionally if so were that; elliptically †if so.) ΚΠ 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 5 And if so is that thou so be, Tell me thy shrift, in privete. 1414 Rolls Parl. IV. 22 Ȝif hit be so that they axke you by spekyng, or by writyng.] 1495–6 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 114 Thynking that to be our next way, if so were that we wold not advise you to com not up by the pryvie seale. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Div If so that yonder wycked head must needes Recouer porte. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus If so be it the mesure of the bloud excied three sextares. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. xiv. 12 If so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall bee able to driue them out. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 173 If so be we left the Road,..they would wind about our horses legs. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1443 If so be that I can get that affair done by the next post, I will not fail for to give your Lordship an account of it. 1861 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 183 ‘It's my opinion that any man can be a duke if so be it's born to him.’ < as lemmas |
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