单词 | to sit at one's heart |
释义 | > as lemmasto sit at (also close to, near, nigh, next) one's heart ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (intransitive)] settlea1300 sinka1375 soundc1374 sticka1400 to sit at (also close to, near, nigh, next) one's hearta1425 to lie (also come, go) nearc1475 set1607 to go (also come) neara1616 penetratea1616 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 2846 Iwys he sittith so nere myne herte To speke of hym at eve or morwe It cureth me of all my sorwe. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) l. 18 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 383 My sekenes sat ay so nygh myn hert. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 106 There befell unto him another mischiefe, that sate as neere hys skirtes as the death of his dilling. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iii. 429/1 Whose sinnes beganne to sit so neere his heart..that hee sore repented him of the same. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 386 Your Brothers death I know sits at your heart. View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 39 Of all my misfortunes, the greatest that ever befell mee, and which sits closest to my heart. 1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv When discontent sits heavy at my heart. 1754 W. Whitehead Crėu̇sa v. 68 This Action of the Queen sits near my Heart. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. v. 65 The anguish and uncertainty which sat heavy at his heart. < as lemmas |
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