单词 | in retirement |
释义 | > as lemmasin retirement a. The state or condition of living apart from society; seclusion; privacy. Frequently in in retirement.In quot. 1603: hibernation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] privity?c1225 recess?1532 retiredness1601 privacy1602 retirement1603 purdah1865 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 44 Beares doe not eate any thing, during the time of their winter retirement. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 130 For certaine words he spake against your Grace In your retirment, I had swing'd him soundly. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 17 They are one thing in their retirement, another on the stage of publick view. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 72 They liv'd two Years after this in perfect Retirement. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 132 Domitian..continued several days in sullen retirement. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 195 As the Duchess lived in close retirement, she was little surprised at this. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 323 [He] is reluctantly drawn from his retirement to defend his old master. 1932 E. Bevan Christianity ix. 191 Jesuits were trained by a severe discipline, not to live in retirement from the world, but to mingle with the world in order to conquer it for the Church. 1971 E. Mavor Ladies of Llangollen ix. 171 They would contrast the Ladies' small splendour in 1809 with the protested retirement of their early days. 2004 S. D. Hoffert Jane Grey Swisshelm 204 She did not, as she implied, spend the 1870s and 1880s living in quiet retirement at Swissvale, dwelling on memories of the past. in (one's) retirement a. The state or condition of having left office, employment, or service permanently, now esp. on reaching pensionable age; the period of a person's life after retiring from office or employment. Also: the state of having withdrawn permanently from one's usual sphere of activity. Frequently in in (one's) retirement.Common from the mid 18th cent.early, pre-retirement, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. vi. 16 They that might goe off from such imployment to a glorious retyrement, had rather bee disgracefully driuen, than goe quietly. 1716 G. Crawfurd Peerage of Scotl. 402/1 He was a member of the Convention of Estates, which he left when he perceived they would forfeit King James, and has never since been concerned in any publick Affairs..; but in his Retirement has greatly improved his natural Parts. 1764 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. Apr. 177 The father had served in the army, which he quitted, and in his retirement studied mathematics. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiv. 461 His father..enjoyed, in honourable retirement, the fruit of his long services. 1807 Monthly Mirror Mar. 218 Mrs. Didier..has retired from the mimic scene, after a service of forty years, to enjoy the fruits of her long labour in a happy retirement. 1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan I. 99 After..the abolition of the Shogunate, he accompanied the last of the Shoguns in his retirement. 1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife x. 110 Mrs. Bullivant presently saw her being talked to by one who had once been a general but now in retirement wreaked his disciplines on bees. 1956 R. I. Moncrieffe & D. Pottinger Blood Royal 54 Others contain ‘grace and favour’ apartments, for rewarding distinguished servants of the country in their retirement. 1988 G. Sayer Jack xii. 133 He was unhappy in his retirement. He had no idea what to do with himself. 2001 N.Y. Times 22 July ii. 9/4 His character..is an East End London hoodlum who..has been spending his retirement baking in the Spanish sun. < as lemmas |
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