单词 | simple-hearted |
释义 | simple-heartedadj.n. A. adj. Having or characterized by simplicity as a personal quality; esp. (a) unsophisticated; (also) simple-minded, ignorant; (b) (in later use usually) honest, innocent; open, straightforward. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] unlearedeOE untowenc1000 unwittyc1000 skillessc1175 uncouthc1220 lewda1225 lorelessa1300 simplea1325 layc1330 uncunning1340 untaughtc1340 unknowingc1350 rudea1382 roida1400 unquainta1400 ignorant?c1400 unlearnedc1400 misknowing?a1425 simple-hearted?c1425 unknownc1475 unkenningc1480 unweeting1483 nescienta1500 craftlessc1530 misliterate1532 sillya1547 ingram1553 gross1561 inscient1578 borowe1579 plain-headeda1586 empirical1588 rudeful1589 lack-learning1590 learnless?1593 wotless?1594 ingrant1597 untutored1597 small-knowing1598 uninstructed1598 unlearnt1609 unread1609 unware?1611 nescious1623 inscious1633 inscientifical1660 uninformed1702 unaware1704 unable1721 unsuspecting1776 inerudite1801 ill-informed1824 incognoscent1827 unminded1831 unknowledgeable1837 knowledgelessc1843 parviscient1862 clueless1943 the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent simple?c1225 innocenta1382 simple-hearted?c1425 unsubtlea1500 indolec1550 naïfc1598 sacklessa1600 plain-hearted1601 unnooked1602 unguileful1604 onefold1606 naivea1614 innocentious1624 innocential1628 excuseless1640 uncrafty1647 craftless1650 ingenuousa1662 innocentive1661 unartful1703 artless1714 ingénue1848 blue-eyed1903 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective] weak1423 simple-hearted?c1425 good1480 innocent1548 plain-headeda1586 simple1604 green1605 zany1616 soft1621 ungifted1637 softly1652 half-witted1712 simple-minded1749 simpletonic1780 simpletonian1800 sawney1805 simpletonish1819 simply disposed1848 putty-headed1857 cabbage-looking1898 goonish1921 wally1922 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 68 Assay, assay, thou symple herted goste; What grace is shapen the thou ne woste. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxx. f. lxxvij* Oftyme Copre is coloured wondre lyke to gold by crafte done therto, soo that symple herted folk wene that it be fyn gold. 1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe sig. Kiiijv But myght some simple harted soule (as men calle them) saye: What myght it hurte. 1607 S. Hieron Life & Death Dorcas in Wks. (1620) I. 389 [Dorcas] was a discreet, iust, compassionate, cheerefull, simple-hearted almoner. 1649 J. Price Walwins Wiles Ep. Ded. sig. a2 We look upon them as simple-hearted, so simple-headed, to be drawn, as they are, into such ways as they walk. 1754 T. Hartley Serm. Var. Subj. ii. 52 The simple hearted Christian hath but one Meaning and one Way. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xiii. 173 The distress of his situation, among this honest and simple-hearted race, being considered as no reason for increasing their demand. View more context for this quotation 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 605 He made the most astounding revelations to the simple-hearted Major. 1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. vii It was a comfort to me to..hear the simple-hearted Cymric folk talking. 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art Introd. 12 The slow-moving and slow-thinking bulk of a simple-hearted labourer. 1967 Life 1 Dec. 12/3 The simple-hearted nurse who finds her reward in a thank-you letter. 2012 T. T. Kim in J. Werner et al. Sources Vietnamese Trad. 422 Life was simple and people were simple-hearted. B. n. With the and plural agreement: simple-hearted people as a class. ΚΠ 1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. iv. ix. 325 I haue also spoken this by occasion, for the satisfying of the simple-harted. 1659 W. Cole Severall Proposals 6 A multitude of Fetters to inslave the Ignorant, and destroy the Simple hearted. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 199 How he with dire Hypocrisy, and false Tears, beguiles the Simple-hearted. 1819 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 142 It is..the simple-hearted, and the humble in spirit, who are the most inevitable victims. 1918 P. L. Mills Prehistoric Relig. iv. 308 It is the convergence of all the sources..that leads the simple-hearted of all nations to the Savior. 2013 Philippines Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 20 July He leaned in favor of the poor, the sorrowing, the simple-hearted and the peacemakers. Derivatives ˌsimple-ˈheartedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence simplesse1372 simplenessa1382 innocencec1385 simplicitya1500 innocencya1513 ingenuousness1611 plain-heartedness1647 artlessness1663 naivety1708 naïveté1725 acacy1727 simple-heartedness1822 simple-mindedness1827 naiveness1854 onefoldness1887 authenticity1910 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 46 She has a degree of naïveté and simpleheartedness, if I may use the phrase. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott II. x. 343 Where..the old Statesman entered with such simple-heartedness into all the ways of the happy circle. 1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest x. §204 Exquisite in its purity, simple-heartedness, and joyful wonder. 2006 Moscow Times (Nexis) 12 July All simple-heartedness gone, she pays him back by helping to kick the stool out from under him. 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