单词 | in lord's name |
释义 | > as lemmasin (the) Lord's name f. In appeals or exhortations expressing impatience, annoyance, urgency, desperation, etc., as for (the) Lord's sake(s), in (the) Lord's name, etc. Cf. for God's sake and in God's name at god n. and int. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1645 E. Reynolds Self-deniall 43 For the Lords sake let us lay it to heart. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence ii. 90 In the Lord's Name I give them a doom of black and unmixed pure Wrath. 1735 tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. 116 Help, Help, for the Lord's sake! 1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward 143 Go to him, in the Lord's name; but never let me hear any more. 1870 C. Larsen tr. B. Björnson Railroad & Churchyard in tr. M. Goldschmidt Flying Mail 97 But Lars! Lars! What in the Lord's name ails you? 1886 Cheshire Observer 6 Feb. 3/8 Hearing Mrs McGill screaming for some time and crying out ‘Murder; for the Lord God's sake don't kill me.’ 1895 I. Maclaren Beside Bonnie Brier Bush iv. iii. 149 Lord's sake, it's maist provokin' that if a body hes a bit whup o'illness in Drumtochty, their freends tak tae propheseein' deith. 1919 S. W. McClave Fred Winsted 267 For the Lord's sakes hurry up, we'd could a been a mile on our way by this time. 1977 H. Steinhauer tr. H. von Kleist in Twelve Germ. Novellas 74 The chamberlain did not know what in the Lord's name he was to do with horses that the swineherd of Hainichen had sold to the knacker. 1984 L. L. Miller Willow 136 For Lord's sake, did he think she had a lover lurking on the property. 2011 Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. (Mag.) 71 For the Lord's sake, Coren, do something with your life! < as lemmas |
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