单词 | placably |
释义 | placablyadv. In a placable manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adverb] lithelyc897 softeOE mildOE methelyOE mildlyOE mansuetelyc1429 gently1525 gentle1548 tenderfully1640 laxly1785 placably1797 unfrowardly1869 1797 Bailey's Dict. Eng.-German & German-Eng. (ed. 9) II. 537/1 Placably, propitiably. 1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV IV. 317 He..heard patiently and placably complaints of himself and of his government. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 52 ‘Ay, ay,’ said Dunstan, very placably, ‘you do me justice, I see’. 1931 G. Cecil Life Marquis of Salisbury III. xi. 321 Lord Salisbury replied placably. 1999 J. Henderson Writing down Rome iv. 126 ‘The compulsive rapist on the tail of whatever panicked female nubility he can seize’, was placably euphemized as: nympharum fugientum amator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.1797 |
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