单词 | of family |
释义 | > as lemmasof (good, noble, etc.) family (b) of (good, noble, etc.) family: having a distinguished lineage; of high social status. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > of descent or breeding ykynde1420 generous1574 well-bred1585 well-descended1591 well nutrimenteda1592 high-descended1600 well-derived1600 high-bred1613 highly bred1625 high-blooded1632 of (good, noble, etc.) familya1639 pedigree1861 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [adjective] > having specific kind of ancestors > of noble descent of (good, noble, etc.) familya1639 a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 11 Their Cavalry not a Troop of Biscoigners mounted in hast, but the greater part Gentlemen of Family, and of pickt Resolution. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xviii. 141 The governesses or matrons of the society I would have to be women of family. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 19 He..married a beautiful English-woman of family. 1842 T. Moule Heraldry of Fish ix. 190 Printing was then practised by many who were of noble family. 1870 L. Oliphant Piccadilly ii. 46 The Church..compared with other professions..holds out no inducements for young men of family. 1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife xxviii. 344 People of family were painted in order to hand down their portrait to succeeding generations. 1961 D. Jenkins Equality & Excellence viii. 151 Those prestige-conferring occupations which used to be reserved for those ‘of good family’. 2011 M. A. Woodworth Eighteenth-cent. Women Writers & Gentleman’s Liberation Movement ii. 66 Compton Delvile, the man of family, represents the corrupt oligarchy that landed authority has become. < as lemmas |
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