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ˈborder-ˌland
(Also as one and as two words.)
1. A land or district on or near the border between two countries or districts; particularly the border district between England and Scotland.
1813Hogg Queen's Wake, Leyden came from Border land. 1849Grote Greece ii. lv, A neutral strip of borderland. 1876Green Short Hist. iv. §1 (1882) 158 Offa tore from Wales the border land between the Severn and the Wye.
2. fig.
1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xi. (1865) 88 Between the affirmative and the negative there is no border-land with him. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. 132 The twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 370 That borderland between fact and fiction.
b. attrib., esp. in the senses (a) of or pertaining to the ‘land’ between this world and the next; (b) = border-line 2.
1894F. Podmore Apparitions & Thought-Transference xi. 249 The voice in this case awoke the percipient,..but it was of the ‘borderland’ type. Ibid. 257 The hallucination should be classed as a ‘borderland’ case. 1896Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 61/1 Mental or Borderland case. 1898Daily News 30 July 5/5 One thing about the deceased deputy may interest ‘Borderland’ readers. 1904E. G. Younger Insanity in Every-Day Pract. 99 Borderland states..are cases of nervous weakness which do not quite fit in with any of the recognised forms of insanity. Ibid. 101 Dr. Walsh has told me of a borderland case under his care which benefited greatly under his treatment. 1904Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 6/3 He regarded the deceased's as a ‘borderland’ case. 1909Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 9/1 It is a vague, borderland word. |