英语词汇“mere irish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Of a people or their language: pure, unmixed. Latterly only in mere Irish and related expressions, in which mere is sometimes interpreted as belonging to sense 5.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > unmixed race > [adjective]

mere1561

pure-blooded1772

full-blooded1784

pure blood1818

full-blood1819

holethnic1876

the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > creole or mixed > unmixed

mere1561

neat1686

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. G.i Thoughe it were not the meere auntient Tuscane tongue, yet shoulde it be the Italian tongue.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 286 I will repeople the towne againe wyth mere Englishe men.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 27/2 (heading) in R. Holinshed Chron. I The disposition and maners of the meere Irish, commonly called the wyld Irishe.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence Pref. Ep. [They] do rather seem to vnderstand them for a kynd of forreyn people, then as their own true and meer anceters.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. Dd3^v Grammar. Who knowes not that this word signifies the Art of letters, and speach? Yet it is meere Greek in the originall, but now so familiar in our tongue..as it need no Interpreter.

1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. 17 The meere Saxon monuments of..Sir H. Spelman.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 55 There may not be above two thousand Inhabitants of meer Indians.

1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 10 Cardinal Wolsey, in his Embassy into France, commanded all his servants to use no French, but meer English.

1733 C. Wogan in J. Swift Wks. (1824) XVII. 456 Scarce any people are taken for mere Irish, either in England, or on the continent, but the vulgar of the country, and the few unfortunate exiles.

1836 Hansard Commons 28 Mar. 678 No man who was ‘a mere Irishman’ could exist without feeling deep gratitude to the hon. and learned Member for Dublin.

1851 M. Kelly tr. J. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus III. 158 A feeling for other Irishmen not unlike what the old palemen had against the mere Irish.

1890 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 786/2 We forget the cruelty, the lifelong avarice, the cheat, the holocausts of ‘mere Irishry’ given to treachery, and famine, and the sword.

1980 19th-cent. Fiction 35 194 When they began their career..the ‘mere’ Irish were only a generation removed from the Penal Laws which inhibited Catholicism and condemned Catholics to poverty by [etc.].

单词	mere irish
释义	> as lemmas mere Irish c. Of a people or their language: pure, unmixed. Latterly only in mere Irish and related expressions, in which mere is sometimes interpreted as belonging to sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > unmixed race > [adjective] mere1561 pure-blooded1772 full-blooded1784 pure blood1818 full-blood1819 holethnic1876 the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > creole or mixed > unmixed mere1561 neat1686 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. G.i Thoughe it were not the meere auntient Tuscane tongue, yet shoulde it be the Italian tongue. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 286 I will repeople the towne againe wyth mere Englishe men. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 27/2 (heading) in R. Holinshed Chron. I The disposition and maners of the meere Irish, commonly called the wyld Irishe. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence Pref. Ep. [They] do rather seem to vnderstand them for a kynd of forreyn people, then as their own true and meer anceters. 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. Dd3^v Grammar. Who knowes not that this word signifies the Art of letters, and speach? Yet it is meere Greek in the originall, but now so familiar in our tongue..as it need no Interpreter. 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. 17 The meere Saxon monuments of..Sir H. Spelman. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 55 There may not be above two thousand Inhabitants of meer Indians. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 10 Cardinal Wolsey, in his Embassy into France, commanded all his servants to use no French, but meer English. 1733 C. Wogan in J. Swift Wks. (1824) XVII. 456 Scarce any people are taken for mere Irish, either in England, or on the continent, but the vulgar of the country, and the few unfortunate exiles. 1836 Hansard Commons 28 Mar. 678 No man who was ‘a mere Irishman’ could exist without feeling deep gratitude to the hon. and learned Member for Dublin. 1851 M. Kelly tr. J. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus III. 158 A feeling for other Irishmen not unlike what the old palemen had against the mere Irish. 1890 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 786/2 We forget the cruelty, the lifelong avarice, the cheat, the holocausts of ‘mere Irishry’ given to treachery, and famine, and the sword. 1980 19th-cent. Fiction 35 194 When they began their career..the ‘mere’ Irish were only a generation removed from the Penal Laws which inhibited Catholicism and condemned Catholics to poverty by [etc.]. extracted from mereadj.² < as lemmas
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