| 单词 | father-in-church |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfather-in-church ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > one who brings or gives away bride bride-leader1552 father1600 despouser1635 nuptial father1748 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 15 You must be father to your brothers daughter, And giue her to young Claudio. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 136 He goes on still and without interruption, till he came to Who giveth this woman to bee married, &c. and holding her by the hand, looking ever when some one or other would doe the office of a Father, to give her. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 191 I was Father at the Altar..and gave her away. 1758 C. Lennox Henrietta I. i. ix. 66 The clerk acted as father to the weeping bride. 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 216 Where's Miss Judith? Go and give her notice that we are coming, and that I have bespoken to be father at the wedding. 1871 Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow I. vi. 151 ‘I shall want you to stand father-in-church to this young lady,’ said Geoffrey to the clerk. 1907 O. Harper Fighting Bill vii. 111 The poor girl..allowed herself to be led to her place by Teddy, who was to act as father and give the bride away. < as lemmas |
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