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单词 half-friend
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half-friend
a. With nouns denoting persons, as in half-barbarian, half-believer, half bringer, half christian, half convert, half-defender, half deliverer, half-enemy, half fool, half-friend, half-literate, half-savage. Now somewhat rare.
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halfa1300
brokec1380
incompletec1380
imperfecta1398
infecta1398
unperfecta1398
uncompletec1430
unfullc1450
partile1576
unentire?1605
half-faced1607
fragmentary1612
broken1634
partiary1654
fractional1675
fractionarya1690
half-way1694
fragmentala1763
half-and-half1796
fragmentitious1827
incompleted1836
sectional1848
mincemeaty1870
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 27 Semiuir healfmann.
OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 56 Semipes : healffeþe.
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 50 (MED) An half frynde tariere to soule helthe..seith that he wil not leevyn the forseyd sentense of myraclis pleyinge.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 78 (MED) Euer eiþer of ȝou [sc. Father and Son] is ful hool and parfit bringer forþ of þe same holigoost and ful deliverer of hise goodis, and not oon of ȝou an half brynger and an half deliuerer wiþ oþer.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iv. sig. Ffff.vv/2 Both dawes and halfe fooles may bee made ministers or byshoppes.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. v. f. 116v The greater part whereof being halfe christians.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 143 To speake as halfe defendors of the faults.
a1765 E. Young Wks. (1767) IV. 81 Half converts to the right.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 120 A parcel of half-barbarians.
1836 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 25 5 See how incapable half-savages are of co-operation.
1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 28 454 The sceptics and half-believers of the story.
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 399/2 The uneasy half-literates who like to prove that they can spell.
2007 D. T. Courtwright in M. C. Carnes Columbia Hist. Post-World War II Amer. xiv. 335 Like the Democrats of the 1940s and 1950s, the Republicans had become an uneasy coalition of half-enemies.
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