单词 | bastard-bearing |
释义 | bastard-bearingadj. That gives birth to or produces one or more illegitimate children.Now chiefly in academic discussions of historical demography. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > fornicating or adulterous > bearing bastards bastard-bearing1622 bastard-bellied1640 1622 in G. Palmer Les Reports (1678) 298 Thou art a whore, a bastard bearing whore, and Thomas Halls whore. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. G4v Thy Corrupted bastard-bearing wombe. 1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal iii. 32 She that is a Bastard-Bearing Whore, is the most Notorious. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Songs of Springtides 78 Son of as foul a bastard-bearing birth As even his own on earth. 1984 Jrnl. Social Hist. 18 252 60% of the bastard bearing women in 17th century Somerset explained their situation to English Justices of the Peace in terms of broken marriage promises. 2005 J. Crawford Marvelous Protestantism p. vii The monster, double-bodied and two-faced, is read..as a punishment for its bastard-bearing parents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1622 |
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