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单词 in great measure
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in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure
b.after some large measure, in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure, in no small measure: to a considerable extent or degree, largely. Cf. sense 7b.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a considerable degree
in good measurec1225
a quantityc1330
in mannerc1425
not meanly1533
in (a) great (also large, good, ample, etc.) measure1581
to some tune1692
1581 T. Norton Let. in W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire (1730) II. 1111/2 T. Cromwell..having..thus searcht into lives; which by a Black Book, containing a world of enormities, were represented in no small measure scandalous.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxx. 5 Thou..giuest them teares to drinke in great measure . View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 493 The recouery (after some large measure) of my health.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 49 Being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference, sopited in good measure.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §20 Which difference of writing is in a great measure the cause of the different dialect between the Athenians and Ionians.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. iii. 170 Objections against Christianity itself, are, in a great measure, frivolous.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Alcaid The Spanish alcaid answers in good measure to the French prevost, and English justice of the peace.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 309 In whom lust And folly in as ample measure meet As in the bosoms of the slaves he rules.
1854 W. C. Roscoe in Prospective Rev. 10 398 [Shakespeare] leaves his meaning to rest in great measure on the atmosphere that hangs about his language.
1895 R. L. Douglas in Bookman Oct. 22/2 Louis [XIV] was in a large measure responsible for the horrors of the Revolution.
1935 L. J. Henderson Pareto's Gen. Sociol. v. 23 Theology and metaphysics and parts of law consist, in great measure, of systematic and extensive derivations from certain very important residues like those involving the words justice, duty, sanctity, and absolute.
1987 S. Johnson Commissioner ii. 38 Her husband's rise to one of the diplomatic service's most senior jobs had been due in no small measure to the splendid support that Lady P had offered over the years.
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