单词 | master-vice |
释义 | > as lemmasmaster-vice ΚΠ 1630 N. Richards Iesvite in Celestiall Publican sig. H4v That Myne of Murther, Mischiefes Master-vice, Lodg'd in the Politicque skull of Auarice. 1780 E. Burke Speech at Guildhall, Bristol in Wks. (1815) III. 359 That grand foe of the offices of active life, that master-vice in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlvii. 458 Mr. Dombey's master-vice, that ruled him so inexorably. 1906 R. W. Chambers Fighting Chance iii. 56 It is ominous, it is more than ominous—it means that the master-vice has seized on one more Siward. < as lemmas |
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