单词 | right-feeling |
释义 | > as lemmasright-feeling b. Forming adjectives with present participles, as right-acting, right-aiming, right-believing, right-feeling, right-judging, right-meaning, right-seeing, etc. Cf. well adv. and n.4 Compounds 2. [With Old English riht-gelīefende right-believing, faithful (see quot. OE), compare riht-gelīefed of true or orthodox belief (see right-believed adj.).] ΚΠ OE Blickling Homilies 185 Ic beo lifes gast..on eallum rihtgelyfendum on me. a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) i The hare that rennyth with right stondyng eers is but litell aferde. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 104v Ryght trowande, ortadoxus. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xvii. f. 131 Whome we following in good,..godly, and rightbeleuing maner [etc.]. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie x. 59 They which haue sought him with a true and rightmeaning heart. 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. v. 21 Then shal the right-aiming thunder bolts goe abroad. View more context for this quotation 1665 G. Wither Three Private Medit. 22 Good example giving, By their well-doing [printed woell-doing], joyn'd with right believing. 1736 M. Chandler Descr. Bath (ed. 3) 58 Her Mind, with each Virtue replete, Had enamour'd a right-judging Swain. 1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xii. 284 In Cornwall and Devonshire, and in the mines of Northumberland and Durham, the principal metallic veins range nearly east and west. In the former counties they are called lodes, in the latter right running veins. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 360 She now appeals to an enlightened, a high-minded, a right-feeling,..contemplative jury of her civilized countrymen. 1855 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) I. 284 A particularly rational and right-seeing man. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 432 Any right-feeling reptile would do that. 1885 C. J. Lyall Anc. Arab. Poetry 90 A heart still and stedfast, right-walking, honest. 1924 Woman's World (Chicago) Oct. 53/2 Mrs. Clifton says all right-living folks have a chauffeur and so she keeps him. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 160 If I was a right-actin' sister I wouldn't go into this, you understand..but you know I ain't right-actin'. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Nov. 19/3 High-minded Alexander and right-feeling Alexandra are disgusted too. 2007 R. Splinter & B. A. Hooper Introd. Biomed. Optics xii. 379 Normal collagen is in a crystalline form with right-turning properties. < as lemmas |
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