单词 | as ever is |
释义 | > as lemmasas ever is (also was) b. colloquial. as ever is (also was): (originally with comparative force) (as good, bad, etc.) as any that exists or existed; subsequently also used merely to add emphasis to a statement (now rare). ΚΠ 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kix Nor spareth to persecute the bloude of Christ in as cleare lyght as euer was. 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon v. i Within a reuell rexe is kept, as sore as euer was. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. ii. 36 There is a chare-woman..a poore silly foole, But an impertinent, and sedulous one, As euer was. 1654 E. Burrough Warning to Inhabitants Underbarrow 38 And here is the ground of all the Saints Imprisonment, now as ever was, the envie of the Devil working in Fallen man. 1708 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1870) X. 78 Bad riding as ever was. 1754 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1822) I. 328 As un-British an age as ever was. 1842 Knickerbocker 20 96 I am seventy-two as ever was this very spring. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xxi. 216 She has been as good a girl as ever was. 1890 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 248 Louis Church..a dear as ever was, aged twenty-one. 1919 F. M. Ford Let. 2 Sept. (1965) 98 If..you wd. care to adventure either next Week End as ever is or next but one, a train leaves Victoria at 3:40 p.m. 1950 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1997) 197 We are off—all being well next Sunday as ever is. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers vi. 264 As to the others, there they sit, as hapless a lot of grounded coryphées as ever was. < as lemmas |
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