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单词 peace of mind
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peace of mind
b. With of and the name of the organ, faculty, etc., in which such peace is considered to reside; now esp. in peace of mind.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 92 (MED) Zueche guodes yefþ god to man ine þise wordle huanne he yefþ pays of herte.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 198 (MED) A meke soule..schulde deeme hersilf vnworþi for to haue sich reste and pees of soule.
a1450 (a1396) W. Hilton Eight Chapters on Perfection 16 Whanne a man..slepiþ in pees of conscience and restiþ with-oute strogelynge of veyn þouȝtis.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Bb4v Let Pluto send thee peace of mind, and stay thy moodie manacings, and as in yeares and welth thou wantst of me, so yeeld thy nauale forces.
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iv. ii. sig. K4 What would I doe, were this to do againe? I would not change my peace of conscience For all the wealth of Europe.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 6 He stuck to Poverty with Peace of Mind.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii A rough inelegant husband may shock her taste without destroying her peace of mind.
1854 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xxv ‘If it succeeded—’ ‘I should be a rich man, and my peace of conscience would be gone!’
1898 F. Montgomery Tony i. 21 She could not read her novel with any peace of mind; and she found her attention wandering from it.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iv. 68 The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other.
2002 E. McLaughlin & N. Kraus Nanny Diaries x. 266 It gives me peace of mind knowing I'm able to be virtually right there with my son.
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