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单词 man of state
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man (also lady, person, woman) of state
man (also lady, person, woman) of state n. a person having a high rank, position, or status (cf. man, etc., of estate at estate n. 3a); (later esp.) one having an important role in politics; a politician, a statesman. [Compare Anglo-Norman gens d'estat, Middle French homme d'estat, etc. (14th cent.).]
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c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 420 A man y was of state sum stounde, & holden a lord of gret mounde.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 258 Sir Hugh was man of state, he said as I salle rede.
1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 89 Thee Prophet layeth downe an exhortation too theese men of state.
1610 tr. M. Bartox in tr. J. Haren Repentance of Iohn Haren sig. F2v Christ the true Bishop, as in this world he took vpon him no person of state, so he appointed no dominion or Empire among his Apostles.
1669 Hist. Sir Eger 46 The burgess..to them spake. The maiden answerd, Who is that? Because he was no man of state, She sayes [etc.].
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 228 Mahomet Son of Abdalla..First tended Camells for a man of State Then wedding of a Widdow rich became A merchant man.
1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. I. 187 He rose early..to wait on the Members of Congress, and the leading men of state.
1869 H. F. Parker Constance Aylmer xxii. 272 Its splendor might well become a woman of state.
1879 V. Durrant S. Weir I. xxxix. 411 Herself and other old ladies of state, away in old country places of ancientry, really did a great deal towards the government of kingdoms.
1912 Railway Conductor Feb. 81/2 Men of other lands point..to Lincoln as our most typical man of state, just as they point to Walt Whitman as our most distinctive man of letters.
1994 H. Gerber State, Society, & Law in Islam 70 The so called teftiş, a sort of law-and-order tour by a very high-ranking man of state.
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