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ˈintime, a. (n.)|ɛ̃tim|
Also -tim, -tymme.
[ad. L. intim-us inmost: perh. immediately a. F. intime (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
a. = intimate a.
b. Now only as the French word revived in modern English use.
a1618Sylvester Job Triumphant ii. 260 Mine Intime-most, Those that I loved best, Abhor mee all. 1629C. Potter Consecr. Serm. 69 His intime friend and familiar. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies v. (1658) 45 An intime application of the Agents. 1675E. Wilson Spadacr. Dunelm. 56, I sharpened the water to divers degrees for its more intim penetration and dissolution. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 22 So that ενεργεια signifies God's intime presence. 1857W. Bagehot in National Rev. V. 411 The real, rougeless, intime Flicflac we know not. 1947Ballet Ann. I. 73 Ballet intime bears the same relation to Ballet Russe as chamber music bears to a symphony. 1963J. Wiesenfarth Henry James iii. 60 Another carriage ride introduces Maisie to an intime relationship between her father and her governess. 1968W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze vii. 87 She..patted the sofa, ‘Come and sit here. It is more intime.’ 1973New York 26 Mar. 21/2 Intime restaurant with continental cuisine.
c. n. The inmost part.
1657Divine Lover 278 Wound the intymme of my soule with the remembrance of thy wounds.
Hence † ˈintimely adv., intimately.
1657Divine Lover 303 A gratious guift by which wee sweetelie and intimmelie aspire to God. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 114 God workes intimely in al things. |