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身をもって； 身を以て； 身を持って [iK]
【 みをもって 】
1. [exp]
▶ with one's own body
▶ by one's own action
▶ by one's own experience
▶ personally
▶ firsthand
2. [exp]
▶ barely (e.g. escape)
▶ narrowly



History:
7. A 2023-01-20 20:31:48  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A* 2023-01-20 17:37:41  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  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))
  Comments: 
Added sense.
  Diff: 
@@ -21 +21,2 @@
-<gloss>through one's own experience</gloss>
+<gloss>by one's own experience</gloss>
+<gloss>personally</gloss>
@@ -22,0 +24,5 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<gloss>barely (e.g. escape)</gloss>
+<gloss>narrowly</gloss>
5. A 2023-01-20 00:46:13  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2023-01-19 00:34:55  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Diff: 
@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身を持って</keb>
+<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
3. A 2010-12-10 21:27:51  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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