单词 | non-intercourse |
释义 | non-intercoursen. 1. Lack or (more commonly) statutory prohibition of intercourse or social communication (see Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] incommunicableness1643 non-communion1648 non-intercourse1794 unsocialism1849 unsociality1852 non-fraternizationc1870 non-frat1945 social deprivation1958 1794 Deb. Congr. U.S. 10 Apr. (1849) 566 Non-intercourse with Great Britain... On the motion of the 7th instant, [the House resolved] to prohibit all commercial intercourse between the citizens of the United States and the subjects of the King of Great Britain. 1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 95 We propose..to leave the question of war, non-intercourse, or other measures, uncommitted, to the legislature. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 69 I intend to try the effect of non-intercourse, and to break with her outright. 1849 J. K. Paulding Puritan & Daughter II. iii. 024 It was not alone compassion that tugged at his heart, but a stronger sentiment, which had been a nurseling in his bosom ever since that wise old gentleman, his father, had so judiciously proclaimed his edict of non-intercourse. 1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men 138 Measures of non-intercourse with Covenant-breaking States. 1968 E. A. Walker Hist. S. Afr. 154 Somerset still further relaxed the system of non-intercourse by permitting a Kaffir fair twice yearly at Grahamstown. 1995 Slavic Rev. 54 476 The Colby note of 1920 finally established a consistently hostile stance of non-recognition and non-intercourse with the Soviet state. 2. Sexual inactivity; absence of sexual intercourse, esp. within a sexual relationship. ΚΠ 1987 Demography 24 584 Sexually active couples are those with no open interval or period of nonintercourse in the 12 months preceding the interview. 1990 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 52 260/2 Some of the fertility studies..ask about periods of nonintercourse lasting several months or more. 1999 Family Planning Perspectives 31 74/1 (note) Periods of sexual activity are based on the respondent's report of months of nonintercourse. Compounds C1. attributive. That prohibits intercourse or traffic; (U.S. History) designating an act of the U.S. Congress (1809) prohibiting ships from France and Great Britain from entering American ports. ΚΠ 1800 T. Jefferson Let. 21 Jan. in Papers (2004) XXXI. 331 The non-intercourse law is to be renewed, but whether only for the tobacco states, or for all, is a question. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. vii. 310 You must submit to an embargo on your wit, and a non-intercourse act between you and the faculty of writing. 1882 Cent. Mag. Nov. 76/2 Finding his trade with the Indians destroyed by the non-intercourse order of Powhatan, he was compelled to get food by force. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 759/1 The use of non-intercourse agreements as revolutionary weapons against Great Britain. 1931 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 39 471 This depression was an important factor in determining the support which the frontier gave first to the Embargo and Non-intercourse acts, and finally to war. 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Rep. (Lawyers' ed.) 2nd Ser. 86 168 The Indians' lands were protected by the Nonintercourse Act (25 USCS §177), prohibiting any conveyance of lands from any Indian tribe. C2. attributive. Designating sexual activity which does not include full intercourse or penetration. ΚΠ 1977 S. Neiger in B. Schlesinger Sexual Behaviour in Canada 86 A number of non-intercourse (hand-genital and mouth-genital) sexual techniques are available to a well-informed man for bringing his partner to quite satisfactory orgasm. 1993 Men's Health Nov. 58/2 Try some sessions of nonintercourse sex. 1996 C. Patton Fatal Advice 82 The national pedagogy's refusal to designate any nonintercourse, nonheterosexual sex activities as safe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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