| 单词 | of good will |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof good will 1. Usually as two words. A virtuous, pious, or honest disposition or intention; goodness, piety, virtue. Now chiefly in of good will as a postmodifying phrase.In later use overlapping with and often indistinguishable from sense 2a.With quot. OE1 compare quots. 1535 at sense 2b and 1611 at sense 2a. In pre-Reformation versions of Luke 2:14 (translating the Vulgate) the phrase good will often has this sense. From the 16th cent. until the late 19th cent., the phrase is usually retained, but used in sense 2. From the late 19th cent., the phrase is usually replaced by other words. See the note in the etymology for further discussion. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > moral excellence goodwilleOE goodnesseOE thewnessc1200 goodlaikc1225 goodheadc1275 honestete1340 bountyc1386 goodliheada1393 prowessc1395 honestyc1400 goodliness1405 virtuosityc1443 virtuousnessc1449 virtueheada1456 good naturec1475 integrity1548 honestness1556 graciousness1591 saintship1613 gracefulness1619 saintliness1838 te1895 virtu1906 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > goodwill or kind intention goodwilleOE favoura1340 well-willinga1382 well-meaninga1393 good nature?c1450 voillancea1500 well-disposedness1606 bon-accordc1650 well-meaningness1663 well-naturedness1679 well-intentionedness1799 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. viii. 139 He wæs swa godes willan þæt he sægde þæt he forlure þone dæg þe he noht on to gode ne gedyde. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke ii. 14 Pax hominibus bonę uoluntatis : sib monnum godes willo [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. to men of good wille]. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 20 Seo sawul is gesceadwis gast æfre cucu and mæg underfon ge godne wyllan [c1175 Bodl. 343 godne willæ] and yfelne æfter agenum cyre. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 502 (MED) Þai [sc. angels] mai neuermar held til il, Namar þan þe wick mai to god will. c1500 Melusine (1895) 371 In som cas the good wylle of a man is accepted for the dede. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 1219/2 Of good will and mere propensitye of hart..he is..ready to forewarne your grace. 1602 J. Davies Mirum in Modum sig. E3v The foe can foile..With Pride our Piety, and our good-will. 1653 W. Dell Confut. Antichristian Errors Anno. 1652 29 in Tryal of Spirits It is no great matter, though men of good will be not poysoned with Heathen mens error nine or ten years together. 1723 A. Pope Let. 27 June in Lett. Pope & Several Eminent Persons (1735) I. 300 I have a mixture of Envy to you all..for enjoying the sweets of that Life, which can only be tasted by People of good will. 1759 T. Adam in S. Walker Christian (ed. 3) Pref. p. vii Answer the Author's Design, in rousing the stupid Sinner, undeceiving the Formalist, and animating Men of Good-will to higher Attainments. 1847 in U.S. Catholic Mag. (1848) Jan. 43/1 Every comfort and help of our holy religion will be, in this district, most easily accessible to every man of good will. 1878 A. T. Sadlier tr. Old Chest vii. 65 May God aid men of good-will! 1922 Amer. Cinematographer Dec. 4/1 Men and women of good will are finding one another though they be divided by creed and color and clan. 2001 G. DiZerega Pagans & Christians x. 229 What is true for these Jews and Buddhists of good will can be equally true of Pagans and Christians of good will. < as lemmas |
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