back ground
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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]back ground (countable and uncountable , plural back grounds )
- Obsolete form of background .
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: [...] , volume III, London: [...] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, [...], →OCLC, pages 181–182:
- I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.
- [1838], John Milner, The History and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, 3rd edition, volume II, Winchester: [...] for James Robbins, [...], by D. E. Gilmour, [...]; London: Orr and Co, [...]; and Keating and Brown, [...], page 258:
- In the back ground is represented the city bridge, built by our saint, and the scene of one of his miracles.
- 1839, Castle Martyr: or A Tale of Old Ireland, volume II, London: Hugh Cunningham, [...], pages 107–108:
- But Anna was an enthusiast—in politics and religion—with a Joan d’Arc devotion, she cast every personal consideration in the back ground, and as far as will could make her, was ready to become an aftertype of La Pucelle d’Orleans.