单词 | cousiness |
释义 | cousinessn. Now chiefly colloquial. A female cousin. In early use also more generally: †a female relative, a kinswoman (obsolete).Apparently not recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > female relative moweOE niecec1300 cousinessa1375 kinswomanc1400 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 625 Þer-for, curteise cosynes, for loue of crist in heuene, Kiþe nouȝ þi kindenes. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke i. 36 Loo! Elizabeth, thi cosyness [L. cognata], and sche hath conceyued a sone in hir elde. 1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) xi. f. 161 His wyfe was Edwardis Cousignes [1488 ner Cusing]. 1575 Earl of Morton Proclam. in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 459 Betwix our souverane Lord and his dearest sister and cousignace the Queene of England. 1858 People's Paper 28 Aug. 4/4 The wife of one and the cousiness of another. 1943 D. E. Stevenson Two Mrs. Abbotts (2013) xi. 94 ‘Jerry is my cousiness, then,’ declared Fay. ‘She is my cousiness and I love her.’ 2013 @aerisse07 31 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) With sibs and cousiness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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