单词 | long-promised |
释义 | > as lemmaslong-promised long-promised adj. ΚΠ 1536 R. Hore Let. 8 July in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/21) f. 25 Pleaseth it your honorabill Ladishipp in goode worth to receive this long promised litill booke. 1653 J. Lilburne Revived 12 Force the establishing of their long-promised..rights and freedoms. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph III. 185 In a few months after their marriage, the incumbent of the long promised living died. 1824 New Monthly Mag. 11 555 A long-ambitioned and long-promised addition to her summer finery. 1939 War Illustr. 4 Nov. p. iii/1 A scheme by which German artisans paid in advance by weekly instalments for their long-promised ‘people's car’ would appear to have fallen through. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 19/1 We have waited since The Judgement of Sense in 1987 for his latest, long-promised magnum opus. < as lemmas |
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