| 单词 | in the negative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the negative 3. in the negative. extracted from negativen.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] in the negative?1592 ?1592 J. Manwood Brefe Coll. Lawes Forest 223 Although that this Statute of Carta de Foresta were made in the negatiue of the Law and vsage that was before. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > negatively privativelyc1475 in the negative1635 negatively1789 1635 E. Rainbow Labour 7 In the Negative, the inconvenience of the Obiect must deterre us. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 27 A Testimony..is of no illation in the negative. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvii. 485 After all, I will not be peremptory in the Negative. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 53 That those however in the negative were unwilling that any powers which it might be supposed they possessed should remain unexercised. c. On the side of, in favour of, or with the effect of, rejecting a proposal, suggestion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adverb] > by way of rejection or repudiation asidec1440 in the negative1647 disavowedly1698 rejectingly1832 dismissingly1880 dismissively1922 1647 Declar. Last Demands Sir Thomas Fairfax 3 To which the Houses were by the said violence inforced [whether they should be declared Null and void] it was carried in the Negative, That the question should not be put. 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 84 There were 120 for the affirmative..and 150 in the negative that it should not be determyned. 1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 144 The majority of votes carryed it in the negative. 1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 53 It was resolved in the Negative. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 321 If that should be determined in the negative. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 148 I doubted..whether I ought to follow..or not. My intense anxiety to find myself face to face with her companion helped me to decide in the negative. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 689/1 There was determined opposition in Allegheny, every ward in the city voting in the negative. 1983 Age (Melbourne) 3 Dec. 11/2 Coming hard on the heels of the casino inquiry, which also recommended in the negative, the Government's decision on poker machines may give it a puritanical..image. d. With denial or negation; negatively; so as to say ‘no’.Frequently criticized in usage guides in 20th cent.: see quot. 1965, and Webster's Dict. Eng. Usage (1989) 43/1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] negatively?a1425 negative1642 in the negative1648 1648 F. Nethersole Project for Peace 6 To the three first I should make a short Answer in the Affirmative, to the fourth in the Negative. 1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 137 They unanimously answered in the negative. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 83 The grave Doctor answers me in the Affirmative. The reverend Serjeant replies in the Negative. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iii. 115 An answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts. 1871 W. H. Ainsworth Tower Hill i. iv Cromwell replied in the negative. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. iii. 72 He replied in the negative, for he was, he said, too busy working on his new book to get abroad. 1965 E. Gowers Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage (ed. 2) 384 ‘The answer is in the negative’ is Parliament language, but deserves much severer condemnation (as a pompous periphrasis for No, sir) than most of the expressions described as unparliamentary language. 1992 G. Adair Post-modernist always rings Twice 31 That favourite lunch-hour query of ‘Did you see..?’ would be answered more often than not in the negative. < as lemmas |
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