单词 | germanity |
释义 | germanityn.1 Now rare. The quality or fact of being ‘german’ or closely related; the relationship of siblings or first cousins. †Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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 1. The qualities or characteristics attributed to or possessed by Germans, German, or Germany; German culture; the fact of being German. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.11597n.21821 |
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