单词 | purge a stain |
释义 | > as lemmaspurge a stain 3. figurative. (Often in phrases like to wash a stain, purge a stain.) extracted from stainn. a. A morally defiling effect on the character or conscience; a grave blemish on a person's reputation; a mark of infamy or disgrace, a stigma. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur spota1225 umberc1380 blotc1386 maculate1490 touch1508 blemish1526 blur1548 attaint1592 stain1594 attainder1597 tachec1610 sullya1616 tainta1616 smutch1648 slur1662 woad1663 a blot on an escutcheon1697 blotch1860 smear1943 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. M1v How may this forced staine be wip'd from me? View more context for this quotation 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Phormio v. ii, in Terence in Eng. 437 Studying to avoid the staine of niggardlines. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 525 A right ancient race of the Digbyes: which..hath now caught a deepe steine by Sir Euerard Digby drawen into that cursed crew. c1610–15 Life St. Sexburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 55 Washing away the staynes of secular pleasures with flouds of teares. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. v. 42 Thy Fathers charge shal cleare thee from yt staine. 1640 T. Nabbes Unfortunate Mother iv. sig. G A truth cleere as the innocence Of babes: after the holy ceremony Hath purg'd th' originall staine. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 His daughter she (in Saturns raign, Such mixture was not held a stain). 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 74 Till penitence had purg'd the public stain. 1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 36 No stain affixes to his honour from the accusation. 1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. v. 89 He would never speak so boldly and so tenderly of his mother, if there were any stain upon her name. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 143 The probable stain on their birth could hardly be thrown in their teeth in the days of William the bastard. 1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 484 But the stain of blood could not be washed out. b. A person or thing that causes disgrace. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > source of discredit or discrediting circumstance > person or thing causing discredit villainya1382 reproof?c1436 reproach1581 stain1589 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Biiiiv To send them to some other mechanicall Arte, that they might not thus be the staine of Arte. 1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia ii. C 5 Stain of thy sexe, thy poisoned speech surcease. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes vi. f. 31v Antiphon that vicious varlet, and steigne of Athens. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 45 Staine to thy Countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom. View more context for this quotation 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iii. ii. 85 Hence from my sight, Thou birth ill gotten, and my marriage stain. 1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 4 A surly vagrant.., The stain of manhood. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > one who or that which > one who staina1586 exceeder1625 eclipser1748 surpasser1805 outdoer1824 outshiner1864 overtaker1885 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiv. sig. I8v Hereby I will..lead her, that is the prayse, and yet the staine of all womankinde. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. B Staine to all Nimphs, more louely then a man. View more context for this quotation 1605 W. Alexander Alexandræan Trag. iii. ii My sonne that was the glorie of his time, Staine of times past, and light of times to come. < as lemmas |
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