单词 | kinswoman |
释义 | kinswomann. A woman of one's own kin; a female relative. (Now only literary.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > female relative moweOE niecec1300 cousinessa1375 kinswomanc1400 c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) xxviii. 288 Hire othere kynnes~wommen [Roxb. sibbe wymmen]. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xi. 103 My dere kynswoman. 1586 Queen Elizabeth I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 23 Yow have not in the World a more lovinge kinswoman..then my self. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 88 Autonoe, a Kinswoman of the Tyrant's. 1754 E. Carter Let. 14 Feb. in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) I. 353 I wish,..in the next edition Mr. Richardson would leave out the grievous old-fashioned word kinswoman. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 168 He tried to restore harmony between his kinswomen. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 54 The murdered prince had married a kinswoman of the Earl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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