单词 | neighbourliness |
释义 | neighbourlinessneighborlinessn. The condition, quality or fact of being neighbourly; friendliness, kindly feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > friendly relations between neighbours neighboureda1200 neighbourshipa1325 neighbourhead?a1425 neighbourhood?a1425 good neighbourhood1534 neighbourlinessa1618 good neighbourship1693 good-neighbourliness1839 neighbouring1942 a1618 R. Rogers Samuels Encounter with Saul (1620) xxvi. 316 Wee ought so to liue, that wee offer them all good measure in neighbourlynes. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 5 Nov. (1970) III. 249 There was not the neighbourliness between her and my wife that was fit to be. 1685 H. More Cursory Refl. Pref. sig. A3 Neighbourliness and Good-nature washes them out of the remembrance of both. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. vii It is the science of..philanthropy without neighbourliness. 1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 141 The latter distinguishing themselves more for their good example in all good-neighbourliness. 1879 Spectator 7 June 719 He has tried to make out how far neighbourliness, as amongst ants of the same nest, really goes. 1899 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 369/2 There she sat, dear soul..as with neighborliness and comfort written in her every line she held my mother's hand. 1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again ii. xxi. 313 The emotions which had betrayed them into injudicious cordialities and unwonted neighborliness. 1977 Belfast Tel. 17 Jan. 5/5 Neighbourliness is infectious. A pensioner who lives alone was telling me about how good young women neighbours had been when she was ill. 1990 A. N. Wilson C. S. Lewis v. 87 Their friendship had remained a thing of pure neighbourliness, without blossoming into any sort of spiritual or intellectual intimacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1618 |
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