| 单词 | kindly engendure |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskindly engendure b. An instance of begetting or procreation; a birth. Usually in kindly engendure, with reference to a person's natural (as opposed to spiritual) birth.Apparently only in allusion to quot. 1821, which itself alludes to an analogous use of engendrure in Thomas Usk's Testament of Love (see quot. 1532 at engendrure n. 1a), a work at that time attributed to Chaucer. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [noun] birdeOE birtha1200 i-borenessc1225 bearingc1275 nativityc1375 progressionc1385 gettingc1480 natality1483 naissance1490 falling1533–4 nascence1570 natitial1612 progermination1648 happy event1737 engendure1821 arrival1830 birthhood1867 interesting event1899 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 279/1 Crown-office Row (place of my kindly engendure). 1918 Bookman Dec. 81/1 Ingenious arguments have been devised to show why a man should love the place of his engendure, whether kindly or not. 1939 M. E. Chase Goodly Fellowship iii. 79 I gave my name and the state of my kindly engendure. < as lemmas |
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