a' God's name
English
Phrase
- Obsolete form of in God's name.
- 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
- SIL. What, a' God's name, could come into the heads
- Of this people to make them rebel?
- ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads
- A' God's name.
- GER. But what a devil made the noblemen
- Rebel? they never mind religion.
- 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
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