| 单词 | one's better nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's better nature b. The innate or characteristic disposition of a particular person, animal, etc. In recent use frequently in one's better nature: the better side of a person's character; the capacity to behave or act in a tolerant, generous, etc., fashion, as opposed to selfishly. Cf. second nature s.v. second adj. 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous side of character one's better nature1848 Jekyll?1885 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3039 (MED) The ferste of hem..Was Morpheus, the whos nature Is forto take the figure Of what persone that him liketh. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 3368 A wolf he was.., The whos nature prively he hadde in his condicion. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 21888 Ilk creatur Efter þe state of his natur, Better his maker knaus þan man. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 112 (MED) Be he [sc. lepers] war of lechery & of alle thyng þat may make hote or chaufe the nature of hem. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1693 They..callyd hem goddes..for the streyngthe & myght of her nature. 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 149 Sic brallaris and bosteris degerat frat [a1586 Maitl. F. degenerit fra] thair naturis. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 615 The Englishe men (whose natures are not to be faynt hearted, euen at the very ieopardie of death). 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 227 Choosing rather to vndergo all hazards,..then so long a voyage by sea, to my nature so irksome. 1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 20 I must..Wound his soft Nature, though my own Heart akes for it. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 93. ⁋4 Men may change their Climate, but they cannot their Nature. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 153 He..Puts off his generous nature; and..puts on the brute. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. x. 211 It seemed as if his avarice was struggling with his better nature, and compelling him to pouch zecchin after zecchin. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. ii. 34 My brother has it not in his nature to feel jealousy. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xii. ix. 375 His own better nature which..was magnanimous and heroic, moved and won him. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 292 I knew..that the kindness of your nature might prevent you judging an uncontrolled tongue harshly. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. iii. x. 129 Any repressed desire which belongs to my undeveloped ‘better nature’. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) xiii. 246 By the time Stephen got home, my better nature had asserted itself and I was terribly worried about his feelings. 1987 A. Miller Timebends ii. 70 I was in a rush to meet life and my nature. < as lemmas |
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