单词 | beloved |
释义 | belovedadj.n. A. adj. (Dearly) loved.Frequently with preceding adverb.best-beloved, much-beloved, well-beloved, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective] lief and deara900 dearOE sweetOE lovedOE dearlyOE liefOE dearworth?c1225 chere1297 lovered1340 beloveda1375 dearworthyc1374 chary?a1400 sugaredc1475 tender1485 chereful1486 affectionatea1513 dilect1521 chare1583 ingling1595 darling1596 affected1600 in the love of1631 jewel-darling1643 adorable1653 fonded1684 endeared1841 dotey1852 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1491 (MED) A beter bi-loued barn was neuer born. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. iii. 17 This is my byloued sone. 1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §14. m. 30 His entierly beloved uncle. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song Three Children f. lvjv For thy beloued Abrahams sake. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Matrimonie f. xiii* Deerely beloued frendes, we are gathered together here in the syght of God. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 188 Their beloued Deumo is imperiously inthronized vpon a brazen Mount. 1665 Bp. G. Burnet Disc. Memory Sir R. Fletcher 32 The death of his deservedly beloved children. 1701 W. Nicholls Treat. Consol. Parents 40 The innocent Wantonings of a beloved Child. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Sonnet x, in Poems (ed. 2) 87 'Twas even thine, beloved Woman mild! 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 1 Impatient to be once more in his beloved country. 1873 M. E. Braddon Lucius Davoren I. Prol. ii. 22 Dreaming he was in his cuddy at Battersea, supping upon his beloved sausage. 1938 Life 4 Apr. 37/1 (advt.) One of the best selling and most beloved of all Victor recordings is Brünnhilde's War Cry ‘Ho-yo-to-ho’. 1952 Times 8 Jan. 4/3 The Rachmaninovians were present to hear their beloved Second Piano Concerto. 2013 New Yorker 25 Mar. 27/1 New realist works by the cranky and beloved painter. B. n. A person who is (dearly) loved, a loved one; (also) beloved people as a class. Frequently with possessive adjective.Prior to the revised edition of 1662, the marriage ceremony in the Book of Common Prayer began with the words ‘Dearly beloved friends’; cf. quot. 1549 at sense A. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] darlingc888 the apple of a person's eyeeOE lief971 light of one's eye(s)OE lovedOE my lifelOE lovec1225 druta1240 chere1297 sweetc1330 popelotc1390 likinga1393 oninga1400 onlepya1400 belovedc1430 well-beloved1447 heart-rootc1460 deara1500 delicate1531 belove1534 leefkyn1540 one and only1551 fondling1580 dearing1601 precious1602 loveling1606 dotey1663 lovee1753 passion1783 mavourneen1800 dote1809 treasure1844 seraph1853 sloe1884 darlint1888 asthore1894 darl1930 c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 284 It is lickely that he, the moste benigne lorde, ofte sithes visited bothe his moder and his disciples and Mawdeleyn, his special byloued. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 47 (MED) Thy beloued is of suche nature þat he wol admitte no straunger, but he allone wol haue þin herte. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 John iii. 2 Derely beloved, now are we the sonnes of God. 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 138 The Louer and Beloued are not tied to one Law. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 39 Oh beloved, let us abate of this high-mindednesse. 1662 Bk. Common Prayer sig. bb2v Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God. 1748 G. White MS Serm. 'Tis the nature of Love to extend itself to all things belonging to it's Beloved. 1788 E. Butler Diary 12 Jan. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) vi. 142 My Beloved and I went the Home Circuit, very dark, inclined to mizzle. 1829 F. D. Hemans Magic Glass in A. A. Watts Lit. Souvenir 41 Woods and valleys deep, Where the beloved are laid in lowly sleep. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxxi. 24 Others talk of their beloveds, and they shall be made to hear of mine. 1930 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 536/2 On the little balcony..stood Mahricka.., the night-star and special beloved of Zizi-Hannun. 1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love ii. 53 The tragedy of losing his beloved would provide the stuff of great art, the raw material he needed, even craved. 2006 Esquire Mar. 117/4 Score some even bigger brownie points by taking your beloved for a week of luxury in the Maldives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1375 |
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