| 单词 | lavish of tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslavish of (one's) tongue a. With reference to speech: Unrestrained, effusive; esp. in phrase lavish of (one's) tongue. Now only as contextual use of 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > having abundant vocabulary > profuse > effusive lavish?1485 lavishing1598 fulsome1922 ?1485 E. Howard in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 444 They have not ben of that disposicion to be lavas of theyr tvngys whan they had moore cause of booldnes than they have nowe. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 245/1 [Though many confessors are] in al other thing so light and laues of theyr tong..yet finde we neuer..cause giuen of complaint, through..secretes vttred..by the confessoure. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 114 ‘Trow ȝe’, he said, ‘for ȝour speiking so proude, Or lichtlie langage bayth lawage and loude,..That I dar nocht to my purpois proceid’. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. i. 25 Th'excessiue loue I beare vnto your grace, Forbids me to be lauish of my tongue. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 415 How do Old men even dote into lavish discourses of the beginning of their lives? 1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. ii. 761 I bore his lavish Tongue. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 20 But why on Time so lavish is my Song? 1807 G. Crabbe Birth Flattery in Poems 202 The lavish Tongue shall honest Truths impart. < as lemmas |
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