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单词 what force?
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what force?
a. it is force: it is of consequence or importance; usually neg. it is no force (also, it maketh no force), it does not matter. So (without verb) what force?, no force = ‘what matter?’, ‘no matter’. Const. though.., if.., whether.., or relative clause; also absol. and parenthetic. [So in Old French] Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)]
it is no forcec1369
to be not (nought) to charge138.
to make no mattera1466
it maketh no force1551
to make nothing1551
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be of no importance [phrase]
forcec1330
no wardc1330
no strength1340
no forcec1369
no mattera1466
what force?a1513
no skill1575
what matter?1678
the game (play, etc.) is not worth the candlea1699
nix my dolly1795
what the hell1872
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 522 ‘A! goode sir, no fors’ quod I.
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 591 It is no fors how longe that we pleye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13044 Of hir nam es na force to tell.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 20683 I shal ȝou telle for hit is fors where þenne bicome hir cors.
a1400–50 Alexander 471 Þofe þou haue forfet, na force, so has fele othire.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 33 He is but a tromper and a iaper, no fors, late us sende for hym.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxiiiv What force thougth sathan..Do hym rewarde.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 325 Trino or terno, no force whether.
1540 Sir R. Sadler in St. Papers (1809) I. 25 ‘Well’, quoth he, ‘it is no force’.
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xxvi Parte that arche line into two partes, equall other vnequall, it maketh no force.
1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. F.iijv Imbrace the good, as for the rest, no force how they thee take.
1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice sig. V8v She neuer yet so much as smiled on me; No force, sith I my selfe the better know.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 19 They are Dutch Colours: no force, the worst of Enemies.
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