单词 | peregrinity |
释义 | peregrinityn. 1. a. Foreignness in style, fashion, dialect, etc.; strangeness, outlandishness. Now rare.Considered to be a foreign word by Johnson (see quot. 1773). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > foreign land > foreign quality peregrinity1591 foreignness1611 exoticness1631 exotism1811 foreignism1838 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxviii. f. 115v This causeth the Emperours to..be very warie for excluding of all peregrinitie, that might alter their fashions. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. v. 33 The affected peregrinitie of his straunge attire. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 29 Aug. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 140 He [sc. Johnson] said to me..‘These people, Sir,..may have somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect, which relation has augmented to a different language.’ I asked him if peregrinity was an English word? He laughed, and said, ‘No.’ 1807 F. Wrangham Serm. Transl. Script. 21 Stamped with idiotism or with peregrinity. 1955 Classical Philol. 50 271/2 Old, fully acclimated loan words, which could have no odor of peregrinity for Romans of Cicero's day. 1966 Classical Philol. 61 42/1 The author's English is sometimes erratic, with a suggestion of peregrinity. b. The condition or quality of being a foreigner or (resident) alien; (Roman Law) the condition of being a peregrine (peregrine n. 3b). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > non-native inhabitant > condition of being alienage1677 alienship1759 alienism1783 peregrinityc1850 c1850 E. A. Andrews Latin-English Lexicon 1110/2 Peregrinitas.., the condition of a peregrinus or foreigner, opp. to that of a Roman citizen, alienage, peregrinity. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 566 Peregrinity, the condition of those who, being free, were neither citizens nor colonial or Junian latins, though possibly Roman subjects. 1900 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 206/2 Many who experience the situation neglect it as a mere concomitant of peregrinity. 1979 A. Lacoque But as for Me viii. 158 The very deprivation, poverty, peregrinity of the ger [sc. resident alien] is participation in Israel's history. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > in foreign lands peregrination1548 peregrinity1851 globetrotting1874 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. iv. 176 Five health-journeys which..he had to make in all. ‘Five forced peregrinities’. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. vi. 209 A new removal, what we call ‘his third peregrinity’, had to be decided on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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