单词 | romaunt |
释义 | romauntn.adj. Now rare. A. n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > Old French romaunt1481 Old French1673 OF1708 neo-Latin1881 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) xlv. 85 They that dwelle nygh the see, ben of other maner lyuyng of habyte & langage, ffor they speke Rommant. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 446/1 Je ruse,..and in olde Romant je lobe. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Romant, the most eloquent French. 1848 W. S. Gilly Romaunt Version Gospel St John Introd., p. xx Albericus in his Chronicle speaks of certain books of Scripture, which had been translated from the Latin into Romaunt. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. viii. 405 If the Romaunt among the peasants of the Alpine valleys confined itself to grave and holy lessons, in Languedoc it was the amatory or satiric song of the Troubadour. 2. = romance n. 1, 3a. archaic and literary in later use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > verse romance yeddingc950 gesta1300 jesta1300 romancec1330 romaunt1530 roman d'aventure1868 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 486/2 Though I fynde it moche used in the Romante of the Rose, it is..nowe lytle used. 1567 G. Fenton in tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. Ep. Ded. sig. *.vv Neyther do I thynke that oure Englishe recordes are hable to yelde at this daye, a Romant more delicat and chaste..then theis hystories. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 44 Take for it, this testimony out of an old Romaunt. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum iv. 119 Ten thousand such Romants the Vulgar tell. 1765 T. Percy Reliques III. p. vi As the Songs of Chivalry became the most popular compositions in that language, they were emphatically called Romans or Romants. 1812 Ld. Byron (title) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 154 Then there are the minstrels, with their romaunts and ballads. 1884 J. Ruskin Art of Eng. i. 5 The habit of regarding the external and real World as a Singer of Romaunts would have regarded it. 1916 D. C. Scott Lundy's Lane 76 A romaunt that was read Once on a morn of storm and laid aside. 1927 R. A. Taylor Leonardo the Florentine ii. iii. 116 Some beauty from beyond the Alps, lost in the white forest, singing crazed romaunts. 1974 V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) ii. v. 96 What remained on the palette has been used by me..for touching up the father of the passionate siblings in the best of my English romaunts, Ardis. B. adj. In form Romaunt. = romance adj.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of Romance languages Romana1393 romance1421 romaunt1530 Romanic1683 Romanesque1715 Romane1830 Romanistic1882 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 41 Mye is an olde Romant worde. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια Advt. relating to Ortogr. sig. R1 The French..wold have his Language retain still of the Romand or Latin Toung. 1785 C. Reeve Progress of Romance I. ii. 36 The French or Franks language came at length to be called the Romaunt tongue, as often as the proper name. 1794 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 4) II. 221 The Grecian language was entirely lost; that of the Romans was altered by the jargon of the Francs and Burgundians. It is from this mixture that the Romaunt language proceeds. 1848 W. S. Gilly (title) The Romaunt version of the Gospel according to St John. 1860 W. Hanna Wycliffe & Huguenots 108 The first translation of the entire Bible into any modern language was the Romaunt version, written in a language understood over the whole south of Europe, and widely circulated..in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 1867 E. E. S. Elliott End of Life iv. 83 The translation of the Bible..into the so-called Romaunt language of that time and country. 1996 R. C. Thompson Champions of Christianity iv. 62 The Noble Lesson was composed in the local Romaunt dialect, or patois, of the Piedmont Alps, and not of the Lyonnais. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1481 |
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