单词 | i trow |
释义 | > as lemmasI trow b. Parenthetically or at the end of a sentence (often merely expletive), as I trow (in assertions) = ‘I suppose’, ‘I ween’; †also rarely in questions (where the sense is not clear). ΚΠ α. γ. 1423 Kingis Quair xi Bot now, how trowe ȝe? suich a fantasye Fell me to mynd.] 1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xiii. sig. Civ/1 Thyse wordes I trowe shall suffyse.1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.viv Who trowe you is a faythefull seruaunte??1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 47 No man is so foolishe, I trowe, so to doe.a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 128 Who's there, I troa ? View more context for this quotation1676 A. Marvell Gen. Councils in Wks. (1875) IV. 138 Did not this Historian, trow you, deserve [etc.]?1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 174 But I tro, you will put some difference between Little-faith and the Kings Champion. View more context for this quotation1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxvii. 152 What is become of Lord M. I trow, that he writes not to me?1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 45 Why, this is strange, I trow!1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 438 A sceptic is not to be startled by paradoxes, I trow.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 371 Þarfor scaples was it [I] tru [Fairf. traw]. < as lemmas |
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