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单词 germanity
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germanityn.1

Brit. /dʒəˈmanᵻti/, U.S. /dʒərˈmænədi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin germānitāt-, germānitās.
Etymology: < classical Latin germānitāt-, germānitās relationship between brothers and sisters, affinity < germānus germane adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French germanité relationship between siblings (1447) and also germaineté , in the same sense (c1350). Compare earlier germane adj.
Now rare.
The quality or fact of being ‘german’ or closely related; the relationship of siblings or first cousins. †Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > nearness of
nighnessa1398
propinquity?a1425
nearness1444
proximity1480
germanity1597
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas v. 70 Thus was germanity & brotherhood broken betwixt the Thebans.
1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices i. 81 The germanity and neerest blood of brotherhood.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Cor. viii. 8) The germanity, the naturalnesse, legitimatenesse opposed to bastardlinesse.
1663 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 8) sig. H/2 Germanity, brotherhood.
1822 W. Bennett Malpas II. i. 27 And as for my affinity, and relationship, and germanity, look you, to Sir Price.
2000 D. Bertaux & C. Delcroix in P. Chamberlayne et al. Turn to Biogr. Methods in Social Sci. i. iii. 76 Anthropologists have shown that all kinship ties may be decomposed into a combination of three basic kinship relations: union (the relation between spouses), filiation (the relation between parents and children), and germanity (the relation between siblings).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Germanityn.2

Brit. /dʒəˈmanᵻti/, U.S. /dʒərˈmænədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: German adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < German adj. + -ity suffix. Compare earlier Germanism n. 2 and slightly later Germanhood n.
1. The qualities or characteristics attributed to or possessed by Germans, German, or Germany; German culture; the fact of being German.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > characteristic of
Germanism1807
Germanity1821
Germanicism1828
Teutonism1854
Teutonity1877
Teutonicism1901
1821 Edinb. Monthly Rev. Apr. 387 The national spirit, marked by these peculiarities, is denominated Germanity.
1824 T. De Quincey Goethe in London Mag. Sept. 302/1 One other part of this lady's conduct merits notice for its exquisite Germanity.
1832 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 2 Besides, it [sc. the ‘Tour of a German Prince’] lacks Germanity; the Germanisms in the whole are not greater than might be collected in a three years' residence.
1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 700 The inhabitants [of Weimar] seemed to us to have more than the usual heaviness of Germanity.
1900 R. Le Gallienne Sleeping Beauty & Other Prose Fancies xii. 118 It [sc. America] is a nation that means business, it will stand no nonsense; it is a nation in which, to borrow a phrase from a certain quack-prophet of Germanity—‘the drones must die’.
1918 F. B. Young Crescent Moon ii. 28 She had always imagined that Germans were fair. In no way did he answer to her ideas of Germanity.
1933 Stud. in Philol. 30 82 Swartzenberg tests the genuineness of Fabritio's Germanity by addressing him in the language.
1986 C. Hope Hottentot Room v. 48 Rose despaired of her mother's refusal to let go of..what Rose always referred to as her ‘Germanity’..and become properly English.
2006 D. Fernbach tr. J. M. Palmier Weimar in Exile 697 The Nazis sought in certain works to show that the Third Reich was the culmination of the tradition of romanticism and Germanity that [Ricarda] Huch had exalted.
2. Support for or attachment to German interests. Obsolete. rare.
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1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Nov. 10 That they are slightly demoralized by success no one not directly inspired with ‘Germanity’ can doubt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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