| 单词 | worldly wiseman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworldly wiseman worldly wiseman n. (also Worldly Wiseman) [after wise man n.] a person who is worldly-wise (now only with allusion to the character so named in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (as Mr. Worldly-Wiseman: ed. 2, 1679, p. 16)). ΘΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worldliness > worldly person world-manOE worldling1549 worldly wiseman1561 cosmopolite1614 worldly wiseling1681 1561 J. Gough in Godly Boke Prol. sig. C.iiv The question whiche might be asked him by some worldlye wiseman, whiche woulde saye. Why Sir what maner of lyfe woulde you haue vs to leade? a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 73 Not onely a worldly wiseman, but a Christian wiseman may reach out both hands, to both kinds of blessings,..spirituall and temporall. 1775 T. Haweis Familiar & Pract. Improvem. Church Catech. iii. 21 A labourer, who has learned to read and write may be as vain of his scholarship among his equals, as the most puffed up worldly wiseman. 1864 W. E. Tayler Ashley Down iv. 53 What a lesson does the conduct of this truly apostolic man offer to those timid ‘worldly wisemen’ of the present day. 1921 P. Gibbs More that must be Told iii. 108 Out of the House of Commons, that assembly of ‘hard-faced men who look as if they had done extremely well out of the war’, out of that House of Worldly Wisemen, came a plea for ‘a spiritual lead’. 1982 Daily Herald (Chicago) 31 Jan. vi. 5 Corde exposes his own innocence against a backdrop of assorted con artists, slick lawyers, Dickensian Scrooges and Bunyanesques Worldly Wisemen. < as lemmas |
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