† bilewhitadj.

Forms: Old English bilewit(e, bilwit, Old English–Middle English bylewite, Middle English bylehwit(t), Middle English bilewhit, bilehwit.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Etymology doubtful: probably < Germanic *bili- , cognate with Old Irish bil good, mild, and found in Old High German billich , modern German billig just, reasonable + wit n.; giving the sense ‘mild of wit or mind.’ Compare German bilwiz ‘a good friendly house-spirit,’ Grimm Germ. Myth. (ed. 4) III. 137 (Eng. ed. II. 473), and billy-blin(d n. The interpretation ‘white of bill,’ like a young bird ( < Old English bile + hwít), was current at an early date, as shown by 12th cent. spellings; compare French bec-jaune, German gelb-schnabel, though these are depreciative rather than laudatory; and it must be noted that the earlier spellings had not hwít, but wite.

Obsolete.

Mild, gentle, clement; innocent, simple.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective]

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c890 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xxiv, in Sweet Reader 50 Swa swa he hluttre mode and bilewite ond smyltre willsumnesse Dryhtne ðeowde.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xi. 29 Biluit [ic] am. [c975 Rushw. G. mild, c1000 Ags. G. bilwite, v.r. bylewite, c1150 Royal MS. bylewit, c1160 Hatton bylehwit.]

c975 Rushw. G. Matt. x. 16 Bilwite swa swa culfra. [c1000 Ags. G. bylwite, c1150 Royal MS. bylewitte, c1160 Hatton bylehwitte.]

1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1041 He wæs swiðe god man and swiðe bilehwit.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6654 Shepisshe. & bile whit All clene off ille þohhtess.

a1225 St. Marher. 22 Þe engles..sungen on hire bodi bilehwit and blesceden hit.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	bilewhit
释义	† bilewhitadj. Forms: Old English bilewit(e, bilwit, Old English–Middle English bylewite, Middle English bylehwit(t), Middle English bilewhit, bilehwit. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Etymology doubtful: probably < Germanic bili- , cognate with Old Irish bil* good, mild, and found in Old High German billich , modern German billig just, reasonable + wit n.; giving the sense ‘mild of wit or mind.’ Compare German bilwiz ‘a good friendly house-spirit,’ Grimm Germ. Myth. (ed. 4) III. 137 (Eng. ed. II. 473), and billy-blin(d n. The interpretation ‘white of bill,’ like a young bird ( < Old English bile + hwít), was current at an early date, as shown by 12th cent. spellings; compare French bec-jaune, German gelb-schnabel, though these are depreciative rather than laudatory; and it must be noted that the earlier spellings had not hwít, but wite. Obsolete. Mild, gentle, clement; innocent, simple. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [adjective] bilewhitc890 chastea1340 innocenta1340 c890 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xxiv, in Sweet Reader 50 Swa swa he hluttre mode and bilewite ond smyltre willsumnesse Dryhtne ðeowde. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xi. 29 Biluit [ic] am. [c975 Rushw. G. mild, c1000 Ags. G. bilwite, v.r. bylewite, c1150 Royal MS. bylewit, c1160 Hatton bylehwit.] c975 Rushw. G. Matt. x. 16 Bilwite swa swa culfra. [c1000 Ags. G. bylwite, c1150 Royal MS. bylewitte, c1160 Hatton bylehwitte.] 1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1041 He wæs swiðe god man and swiðe bilehwit. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6654 Shepisshe. & bile whit All clene off ille þohhtess. a1225 St. Marher. 22 Þe engles..sungen on hire bodi bilehwit and blesceden hit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.c890
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