单词 | neighbourly |
释义 | neighbourlyneighborlyadj. 1. a. Of a quality, action, etc.: characteristic of or befitting a neighbour or neighbours. Also of a person: friendly, kindly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > neighbourly neighbourc1480 neighbourly1558 good neighbourly1598 neighbour-like1602 good neighbour1933 1558 in Reg. Guild Corpus Christi York 305 (note) A good occasion of..renewyng of amytie and neighburghly love one with an other. 1588 A. Munday Banqvet Daintie Conceits sig. Diijv Mercie is dead, and Charitie colde: Selfe-loue dooth neighbourly kindnesse surmount. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 76 Hee hath a neyghbourlie charitie in him. View more context for this quotation 1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xvii. §1. 358 By any neighbourly and friendly office. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 2nd v. i. 52 I had a curious Flask of Florence sent me.., of which, through neighbourly Courtesie, I gave Snip and his Wife a tast. 1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 260 He in a very neighbourly Manner admonished me. 1791 E. Burke Hints for Mem. in Wks. VII. 5 His majesty's benevolent and neighbourly offers. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. ii. 26 It would be absolutely unnecessary..to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out. View more context for this quotation 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ii. 22 ‘Mother says you're to come to tea, and bring your cup and saucer.’.. ‘I'm sure it's very neighbourly and kind in your mother, and I'll come, with many thanks.’ 1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 629 He considered it was not a neighbourly thing to press for payment. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 77 For Brixham would be very empty during August, and she wanted Edgar Brayton..to find few with whom it was possible to be neighbourly for a few weeks. 1984 B. Breytenbach Mouroir 145 That man carries with him the godliness of neighbourly love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > neighbourly > friendly but not cordial neighbourly1599 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 154 As their States, so their loves and his are but neighbourly. a1628 J. Preston Mount Ebal (1638) 39 It must be onely with a neighbourly and civill, but not with a conjugall..love. 2. Of a person, etc.: inclined to act as a neighbour; situated as a neighbour. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > as neighbour nextOE neighbourly1612 contiguous1710 next door1739 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 8 Who thinke it Christianitie enough to be harmlesse, ciuill, or neighbourly men. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer ii. 513 Scarce one man would be so neighbourly, To helpe his brother in this malady. 1673 T. Shadwell Epsom-Wells II. i. 19 And then to have one approv'd Green-salve, and dress sore legs with it; and all this to deserve the name of as good a neighbourly body as ever came into Sussex. 1778 F. Burney Evelina II. ix. 74 Our lodgings were in Holborn, that we might be near his house, and neighbourly. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 285 In Alsatia, look ye, a man must be neighbourly and companionable. 1849 J. F. Cooper Sea Lions I. viii. 114 I'm happy to have fallen in with you; and I see no reason why we should not be neighbourly, and ‘gam’ it a little, when we've nothing better to do. 1886 A. E. B. Soulby in Law Times 81 446/2 Farmers as a rule are neighbourly and forbearing. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea iii. 32 You might run across and talk to me once in a while... Tisn't far and folks ought to be neighborly. 1987 Kuwait Times 18 Oct. 1/6 Missile attacks..amounted to an attack on the sovereignty of a neighbourly Arab State. 1992 Canad. Geographic Jan. 90/3 Built in an old barn by the sea over a nine-year span by the Camerons with help from neighbourly shipwrights and philosophizing friends. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † neighbourlyadv. Obsolete. After the manner of neighbours; in a friendly or kindly fashion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adverb] > in a neighbourly fashion neighbour-like1448 neighbourly1525 1525 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 169 The housholders..be neybourly drynkyng to-gethers..In Ioyous maner. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 3 Who friendly and neighbourly graunted his desire. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 194 It would joyn all the Towns in the same neighbourly together. 1690 J. Mackenzie Siege London-derry 53/1 Whilst they behave themselves peaceably and neighbourly amongst us. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 63 They live as friendly and neighbourly as other people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1558adv.1525 |
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