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But sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary

But sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. But sb.1 The conjunction but (sense 25), used as a name for itself; hence, a verbal objection presented.

1 1571.  Sempill Ballates (1872), 137. Ȝit botis & hummis declairis ȝow quhat I mene.

2 1614.  T. Adams, Divell’s Banq., 139. There is a corrective But, a veruntamen, spoyles all in the vp-shot … here is a But that shipwrackes all.

3 1682.  T. Goodwin, Wks. (1864), IX. 485. The grants of grace run without ifs and ands and buts.

4 1752.  A. Stewart, in Scots Mag. (1753), Sept., 446/2. He was a sufficient but himself for all the sum.

5 1816.  Scott, Antiq., xi. ‘I heartily wish I could, but’—‘Nay, but me no buts—I have set my heart upon it.’

6 1872.  Minto, Eng. Lit., 108. We are … jerked back with a ‘but.’

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