| 单词 | truewit |
| 释义 | > as lemmastruewit truewit n. (also tru-witt) now historical (the name of) a stock character, esp. in Renaissance comedies, characterized by wit or sagacity.A character with this name was first devised by Ben Jonson in Epicœne. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > witty person whinyard1611 truewit1616 wit-monger1620 witship1636 bel-esprit1638 wit-wright1655 wit1692 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i. in Wks. I. 533 Well said, my Trve-wit . View more context for this quotation 1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love iv. 60 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Transformed from an Ideot, a Bartholmew-Cokes, a Clown, to a Bon Esprit, a Virtuoso, a Truwitt. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World Ded. sig. A4 This Play had been Acted two or three Days, before some of these hasty Judges cou'd find the leisure to distinguish betwixt the Character of a Witwoud and a Truewit. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber 150 The coxcombly Follies of a Sir John Daw, might as well distinguish the Capacity of an Actor, as all the dry Enterprizes, and busy Conduct of a Truewit. 1975 Renaissance Q. 28 430 A measure of complaisance was always expected of a truewit. < as lemmas |
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