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单词 to give way to do, that
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to give way (to a person) to do, that
d. To allow free scope, opportunity, or liberty of action to. Also in indirect passive, and to give way (to a person) to do, that, etc. Obsolete; passing into 49f, and 49g.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1633) i. 5 And knowing that the violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withall..they gave way unto it for that day and the next.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 81 I gaue bold way to my authority, And did commit you. View more context for this quotation
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I4 Antoninus Pius..not only ceasing persecution, but giuing way to the aduancement of Christians. View more context for this quotation
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 Certaine..could not be brought..to giue way to good Letters.
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 15 This is not to be given way to.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 133 Giving thereby rather way and encouragement to the Infante, to demand her.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 610 I will give way to a shepheard, not more foolish then wicked, to arise in my Church.
a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 134 At length, after much debate of things, the Govr..gave way that they should set corne every man for his owne perticuler.
1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 143 They who, through weakness, gave way to the ill-designs of bad men [etc.].
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 517 From that moment the General gave way to his spirit of dissatisfaction and complaint.]
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