| 单词 | to be low in the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be low in the world a. to be low in the world. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] to have needOE needa1300 to have mistera1400 to be low in the world1521 lack1523 pinch1549 to be beforehand (also behindhand) in (or with) the world1615 to feel the pinch1861 to feel the draught1925 1521 tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Cyte of Ladyes ii. lxv. sig. Q.iiiv Howe many nedy gentylmen & others haue ben and ben all dayes lowe in the worlde comforted & socoured by women & by theyr goodes. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Rehabilitation, an Act whereby the Pope or the King, by Dispensation, or Letters Patents, restores those that are grown low in the World. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 672 Low in the world, because he scorns its arts. View more context for this quotation 1839 Era 19 May 401/1 One of the prisoners, named Waddington, was reduced so low in the world as to render it out of the question that he could hope to find bail. 1985 ‘T. J. J. Altizer’ Hist. as Apocalypse iv. 77 But Paul in his opening chapter to these spiritual Christians insists that God chose what is foolish, weak, and low in the world. < as lemmas |
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