单词 | virtuous-seeming |
释义 | > as lemmasvirtuous-seeming C1. Objective, parasynthetic, adverbial, and complementary (in sense A. 2), as †virtuous disposed, virtuous-making, virtuous-minded, virtuous-seeming, etc., adjectives.In quot. 1582 combining with an adjective to form a noun. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > specifically of disposition virtuous disposed?1449 virtuous1477 ?1449–50 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 206/1 By ther Founders and other vertuous disposed persones. 1582 A. Munday Discouerie E. Campion sig. D.viii A great deale more talke they had, so trayterous and horrible: that no godlie and vertuous minded, can suffer to heare it. 1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. I4 Who would haue thought such treachery could rest, In such a smoothe and vertuous seeming brest? 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 347 Becoming..as virtuous-making a Pattern among Wives, as she was before among Virgins. 1727 C. Beckingham Life Richard Savage 28 Your Lordship, and all virtuous disposed Souls, would rejoice to see his past miseries recompensed with his Life. a1788 J. Mylne Poems (1790) 341 Thou virtuous seeming bard! Thou hoary hypocrite! 1807 European Mag. 52 469/2 Those, on whom the virtuous-minded Muse Ne'er breath'd a portion of her hallow'd fire. 1854 H. Milford Physician's Tale II. iv. 64 The curate was not wanting in his attentions, and virtuous-hearted man, he piously endeavoured to confer..comfort. 1959 S. Spender tr. F. Schiller Mary Stuart iii. iv. 63 I did not hide my sinful deeds behind The false show of a virtuous-seeming face. 1990 Economist 8 Sept. 15/1 A virtuous-looking excuse to build a hegemony. < as lemmas |
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