单词 | norman conquest |
释义 | Norman Conquestn. The conquest of England by the Normans under William, Duke of Normandy (William I), which followed the Battle of Hastings in 1066.Earlier called simply the Conquest: see conquest n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > conquering or defeating > specific conquest Norman Conquest1605 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 146 Many approoved customes, lawes, maners,..have the English alwayes borrowed of..the French..by the Norman Conquest. 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 259 He has given us an Account of what Footsteps he could discover of the several Inhabitants of this Island, before the Norman Conquest. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) i. ii. xiii. 100 Our Ancestors, who after the Norman Conquest, were generally skill'd in the French tongue. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Hist. sig. E i/2 This change seems not to have been the effect of the Norman conquest. 1897 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 6) I. 269 The effect of the Norman Conquest on the character and constitution of the English was threefold. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. ii. 28 The breakdown of English forms that set in about the time of the Norman Conquest. 1991 Antiquity 65 882/1 As a result of the Norman conquest, trade was intensified with Normandy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1605 |
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