| 单词 | to pay homage | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay homage  a.  In extended use: acknowledgement of superiority in respect of rank, worth, beauty, or some other quality; reverence, dutiful respect, or honour shown to someone or something; an instance or expression of this. Frequently in  to pay homage.See also hat homage n. at hat n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > 			[noun]		 > manifestation of respect worthingeOE worthminteOE worshipOE homagec1300 honorancec1300 honourc1300 honestyc1384 honoration1493 honorificencea1500 eminencea1616 eminency1647 rising1711 c1300    St. Theophilus 		(Laud)	 l. 41 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 289  				Bi-com mi Man and do me homage, and þov schalt beo riche i-novȝ. a1393    J. Gower Confessio Amantis 		(Fairf.)	  ii. l. 2687 (MED)  				The yonge ladi was forth fet, To whom the lordes don homage. a1425						 (?a1400)						    G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose 		(Hunterian)	 		(1891)	 l. 2044  				I [sc. the God of Love] haue..taken fele homages Of oon and other. ?a1475    Ludus Coventriae 		(1922)	 151  				Ȝe herd-men..For ȝoure omage and ȝour syngynge My sone xal a-qwyte ȝow in hefne se. 1508    Golagros & Gawane 		(Chepman & Myllar)	 sig. avi  				Thair gat he nane homage For all his hie parage. 1526    W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection  ii. sig. Hv  				To do homage and honour to almyghty god. a1616    W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors 		(1623)	  iii. ii. 43  				Your weeping sister is no wife of mine, Nor to her bed no homage doe I  owe.       View more context for this quotation 1671    J. Milton Paradise Regain'd  ii. 376  				All these are Spirits of Air, and Woods, and Springs, Thy gentle Ministers, who come to pay Thee homage, and acknowledge thee thir  Lord.       View more context for this quotation 1725    M. Davys Familiar Lett. in  Wks. II. 266  				She thinks all Mankind born to do her Homage, and despises the tasteless Fool that can resist her Charms. 1786    R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xviii, in  Poems & Songs 		(1968)	 I. 151  				The Parent-pair their secret homage pay. 1803    J. Mackintosh in  Trial J. Peltier 128  				They are compelled to pay a reluctant homage to the justice of English principles. 1823    T. Chalmers Serm. I. 417  				I offer them the homage of my respectful Congratulations. 1856    R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 156  				There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. a1902    S. Butler Way of All Flesh 		(1903)	 xix. 85  				That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call this hypocrisy. 1973    N. Monsarrat Kappillan of Malta 216  				In ones and twos, led by Bin-Said, the crowd came forward to kneel in homage and to accept their ruler. 1984    J. Updike Hugging Shore 		(1985)	 763  				Proust pens homages to such modern inventions as the railroad, the telephone, the airplane. 2000    G. Santoro Myself when I am Real 		(2001)	 8  				His [sc. Charles Mingus's] ashes were scattered over the Ganges River, in India, by Susan Graham, a homage to his Vedanta Hindu beliefs. < as lemmas  | 
	
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