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单词 mere motion
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(of one's) mere motion
2. Originally and chiefly Law. Done, performed, or exercised by the person or persons specified without the assistance or instigation of anyone else; sole. Now only in (of one's) mere motion.
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mere1444
single-handed1709
unilateral1802
one-man1842
solo1909
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 87/1 Of his especial grace, mere motion, and singuler devotion.
1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 161/1 This devout Collage is of his mere foundacion.
1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 216/2 His Highnes, of his owne mere movyng and by noon other auctorite, is agreed.
1527 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 342 But leue theym to the mer disposicion of the said parson & parisheners.
1558 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 388 Of our own meare gifte and volantary willis.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 248 The king of ordinarie calleth..for his Checker roll, and bestoweth his mercedes of his owne meere motion, and by discretion, according to euery mans merite and condition.
1604 Draft Royal Patent in P. Henslowe Henslowe Papers (1907) 102 Of our further grace..and meere mocion we doe by these presentes,..give and graunt [etc.].
1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 55 His nature being the meer work of God had no defaults.
a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 681 It is said to be out of his meer and free Will, as if it were his meer Favour.
1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 21 Does she know..that I have been sent for, or was it only a mere motion of your own?
1852 T. Denman in Standard 27 Sept. Renewing his youthful spirit and vigour, of his own mere motion, simply because his renovation was required for the catastrophe.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 211 We were wrong if of our mere motion we..fought with you, and ravaged your land.
1886 J. W. Johnston Catholic Church & Civil Liberty 237 This was intended to prevent..the arrest of persons by officers of the law on their own mere motion and without process of law.
1942 Polit. Sci. Q. 57 230 The executive had, by its own mere motion, got the country into a state of peace.
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