单词 | unrobbed |
释义 | unrobbedadj. Not robbed; (also) without being robbed. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [adjective] > robbed > not unrobbedc1400 unfleeced1823 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 1 He may walke vnrobbed Among pilours in pees yf pacience hym folwe. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 39 A man myght goo wher he wold vnrobbet, wyth his good yn hys hond. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxiii. sig. Siv They leaue no house vnrobbed. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 32 Although you haue set so many eyes to looke there for your benefite, that you escape vnrobbed of the slaues. 1660 J. Evelyn Late News from Bruxels 2 Those ready Jewels of honour (The only Treasure he is, or can be unrob'd of). 1794 H. Walpole in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 436 At night I went to Lady Onslow's,..and came back unrobbed. 1837 New Monthly Mag. July 373 The wild bees harvested their honey, and lived unrobbed of the reward of their hard toils. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Dec. 2/3 An amateur bushranger..‘stuck up’ a coach, which, however, got away unrobbed. 1948 Times 18 Dec. 5/6 The last of a series of lovely trout streams in the locality whose waters alone remain unrobbed in the name of ‘progress’. 1999 M. Rice Who's Who in Anc. Egypt 88 Her tomb was unrobbed when it was found and contained some exceptionally fine jewellery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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