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<k_ele>
<keb>身をもって</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>身を以て</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>身を持って</keb>
<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>みをもって</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>with one's own body</gloss>
<gloss>by one's own action</gloss>
<gloss>by one's own experience</gloss>
<gloss>personally</gloss>
<gloss>firsthand</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>barely (e.g. escape)</gloss>
<gloss>narrowly</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2009-02-17 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-12-10 07:42:12" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>all</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;身を以て&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2010-12-10 21:27:51" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-19 00:34:55" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>meikyo: 「身を持って」と書くのは誤り。

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 身をもって │ 224,790 │ 76.4% │
│ 身を以て　 │  10,553 │  3.6% │
│ 身を持って │  57,360 │ 19.5% │
│ みをもって │   1,568 │  0.5% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;身を持って&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;iK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-20 00:46:13" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-20 17:37:41" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Added sense.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daij, koj, luminous
wisdom: 【みずから】personally ; 【かろうじて】barely, narrowly 〘escape death〙.
prog: 身を以て逃れる  have a narrow escape ((from))</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -21 +21,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;through one's own experience&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;by one's own experience&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;personally&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -22,0 +24,5 @@
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;exp;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;barely (e.g. escape)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;narrowly&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-01-20 20:31:48" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>