单词 | neighbourless |
释义 | neighbourlessneighborlessadj. Lacking a neighbour or neighbours; solitary, lonely. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] onlyOE alonec1175 solitarya1340 lone1377 ledelessc1400 fellowless?c1425 savage1535 neighbourless1550 private1599 discompanied1601 unattended1603 disaccompanied1605 lonelya1616 marrowless?1635 companionless1644 unneighboured1657 unaccompanied1709 unescorted1774 uncompanioned1822 comradeless1891 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Biiv For this neighbourlie quietnesse Thou art the neighbour neighbourlesse. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy i, in Remains (1670) 6 These Gods tir'd with neighborless deceit Have rais'd their Thrones above Mortality. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 163/1 The quean's as single yet as a neighbourless stocking. 1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 14 Lone dweller by a neighbourless ravine. 1892 J. S. Fletcher When Charles I was King 4 Some homestead..so far from a village that its occupants are entirely neighbourless. 1901 Gallovidian 3 114 Murdered..by a left-hand straik frae a man wi' neibourless een. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey v As a neighbourless man in a lonely steading, before he goes forth covers his charring log under black wood-cinders. 1988 P. Beer Coll. Poems 204 Flowers which are neighbourless and neglected Straggle and gasp over synthetic urns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1550 |
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