| 单词 | poor soul |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor soul (a) With modifying adjective. Applied to a person regarded as having a specified character or quality, as honest soul, poor soul, etc. Chiefly colloquial, often expressing compassion, affection, familiarity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 1498 Doctrynalle of Dethe (de Worde) sig. ciiv O moost pyteful fader of mercy for the vertue of thyn Infynyte goodnes shewe mercy and forgyuenes to this poore soule. 1519 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 105 Euery yere..to give xd. to x poore soulles. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxv Innumerable sely solles dayly died and hourely starued. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. Kv Call Iulio hither; where's the little sowle? I sawe him not to day. 1665 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 247 The honest Soules..ar much aflicted to be reuiled..by the bold faction. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xv. 289 Indeed one might have seen that he was an honest soul, even at the distance of a thousand leagues. 1767 L. Sterne Let. 30 June in Lett. 1765–8 (2009) 595 He is a good soul and interests himself much in our fate. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vii. 151 Paying a long visit at the retired house of a well meaning soul. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time i. 3 Nurse Davis, the kindest soul in the world, and very fond of my mother. 1916 M. A. Taggart Hollyhock House vii. 119 You're the reliable, house-motherly little soul,..yet I'm older than you are. 1992 Oldie 21 Feb. 36/3 The wretched souls who ‘never listen to the radio at all’. Who are they? < as lemmas |
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