单词 | worse liver |
释义 | > as lemmasworse liver 1. More reprehensible morally, more wicked; less virtuous; having a more evil disposition; more cruel or unkind. Also with an agent noun, indicating that the activity is pursued in a more reprehensible way, as worse liver.In quot. ?a1160 with dative of the person experiencing cruelty. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > worse worseOE waura1325 worser1548 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 45 Ðonne gæþ he & him togenymþ seofun oþre gastas wyrsan þonne he. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 979 Ne wearð Angelcynne nan wærsa dæd gedon þonne þeos wæs syððon hi ærest Brytonland gesohton. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xiv. 269 Þi hi send wyrsan þonne nytena þy hi nellað witan hwæt hi sint. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Oc æfre þe mare he iaf heom, þe wærse hi wæron him. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 66 Idel speche is uuel. ful speche is wurse. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1100 He was werse þan sathanas. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 64 Ine þise zenne [sc. zueriinge, i.e. swearing] byeþ þe cristene worse þanne þe sarasyn. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 466 Now certes I were worse than a feend If I to yow wolde harm or vileynye. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 348 Þei stelen pore mennis children, þat is werse þan stele an oxe. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 409 It is saide in old sawes..‘Wars pepill, wars lawes.’ 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 174 There are no worse lyuers in the worlde, than likers of the Crosse. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 128 Three Iudasses, each one thrise worse then Iudas. View more context for this quotation 1646 G. Gillespie Aarons Rod Blossoming 565 Unclean, carnal, prophane persons in whom Sathan reigneth by sin, are worse, and ought much lesse to be admitted to the Sacrament, then those who were bodily possessed of the divel. 1653 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 547 Wors livers then my self have seen their errors. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 226 And didst thou return holy from thence?..Nay somewhat worse than I went. 1718 M. Prior Epitaph 26 So ev'ry Servant took his Course; And bad at First, They all grew worse. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xxxv. 173 A fallen woman is a worse devil than even a profligate man. 1818 W. Wilberforce in R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce (1838) IV. 395 Keswick worse now as to morals than thirty years ago. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 77 The song Might have been worse and sinn'd in grosser lips Beyond all pardon. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 69 Considering it no worse to employ myself usefully than to pass the time loitering about. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 199 I only hope and trust he wasn't a worse liver than we think of. 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 99 I'm not that bad, I'm no worse than stacks o' kids, but they just seem to get away with it. 2015 Cape Argus (Nexis) 1 July 13 Rape, to my mind, is a crime perhaps worse than murder. < as lemmas |
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