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| 1. |
[adv]
[uk]
▶ purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.) ▶ daringly (doing something) ▶ deliberately ▶ intentionally |
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| 2. |
[adv]
[uk]
《used with neg. verb》 ▶ not necessarily ▶ not particularly ▶ not especially |
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| 3. |
[adv]
[uk,arch]
《used with neg. verb》 ▶ definitely not |
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| 5. | A 2023-10-11 08:25:34 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 4. | A* 2023-10-11 00:15:00 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮ │ 敢えて │ 927,213 │ 19.7% │ │ 敢て │ 22,643 │ 0.5% │ - [io] to [sK] │ あえて │ 3,745,002 │ 79.8% │ ├─ーーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤ │ を敢えて │ 80,324 │ 23.2% │ │ を敢て │ 2,984 │ 0.9% │ │ をあえて │ 262,553 │ 75.9% │ ╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯ |
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| Diff: | @@ -10 +10 @@ -<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> |
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| 3. | A 2014-10-09 11:39:48 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | There are 21 example sentences for あえて and many of them use "dare", so it's a pity to lose it entirely from the glosses. |
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| Diff: | @@ -19,0 +20 @@ +<gloss>daringly (doing something)</gloss> |
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| 2. | A* 2014-10-09 06:12:55 Marcus Richert | |
| Refs: | daij etc. |
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| Diff: | @@ -19,3 +19,3 @@ -<gloss>dare (to do something)</gloss> -<gloss>venture (often overcoming reluctance, or in the face of probable failure)</gloss> -<gloss>take upon oneself</gloss> +<gloss>purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>deliberately</gloss> +<gloss>intentionally</gloss> @@ -27 +27 @@ -<gloss>there is no need to</gloss> +<gloss>not necessarily</gloss> @@ -29 +29 @@ -<gloss>not really</gloss> +<gloss>not especially</gloss> |
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| 1. | A* 2014-10-09 04:20:45 Not Meiryo-Name <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | djr; djs; prog3e; kenkyu中 |
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| Comments: | split the original sense (1) into senses (1) and (2). Sense (3) is only found in djr/djs with example sentences from classical text - I guess it might be an archaic sense. |
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| Diff: | @@ -22,5 +22,15 @@ -<gloss>challenge</gloss> -<gloss>presume</gloss> -<gloss>(there is no) need to</gloss> -<gloss>(don't) go as far as</gloss> -<gloss>definitely (not)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&adv;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<s_inf>used with neg. verb</s_inf> +<gloss>there is no need to</gloss> +<gloss>not particularly</gloss> +<gloss>not really</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&adv;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<misc>&arch;</misc> +<s_inf>used with neg. verb</s_inf> +<gloss>definitely not</gloss> |
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