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单词 to multiply evil upon evil
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to multiply evil upon evil
d. to multiply evil upon evil: to add evil to evil, to accumulate instances of evil. Also with other objects, as to multiply charge upon charge, etc. Obsolete.
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a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 102 (MED) Multiplie not evil vpon euil.
1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 74 v And he sawe a Iong mayde that lerned to wryte, of whom he sayde, that me multiplied euyl vpon euyll.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes III. §90 It is a damnable iniquitie in man, to multiplie one sinne vpon another.
1796 G. Colman Iron Chest iii. ii. 119 Heap circumstance upon me; multiply Charge upon charge.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poet 33 Thus truth was multiplied on truth.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 138 I could multiply witness upon witness..if I had time.
1887 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 843/1 This life, it [sc. Buddhism] says, is but a chain of sorrows. To multiply days is only to multiply evil.
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