单词 | sibness |
释义 | sibnessn. Scottish in later use. 1. a. The state, condition, or fact of being of the same family or lineage; relationship by blood or marriage; kinship.In quot. 1995: the feeling or affection arising from being of the same family; familial bond. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] sibOE kindredOE sibredlOE sibnessa1250 sib-lawc1275 kindheadc1325 cousinagec1350 kinheada1375 affinitya1382 kindnessc1390 parentelec1390 parentelac1415 parentage1548 relation1561 cousinship1570 connatenessa1652 relationship1724 kindredship1733 connection1773 familyhood1808 kindredness1826 kinsmanship1842 a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 275 Nu mi swete ihesu, leaued haue i for þi luue flesches sibnesse. ?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) l. 208 Ffor þi godnese art þou min, More for þi godnesse Þen for þine sibnesse. a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) viii. x If mercurius is coniuncte þereto..he disposeþ a man..to writing and is the hous of kynrede & nyȝe subnes. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. l. 1953 For sic sibnes and also sic incest For till abhor, him thocht that that wes best. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 29 Gif she be separate fra him, for parentage, and sibnes of blude. 1711 in Ld. Fountainhall Decisions Lords Council & Session (1761) II. 642 A document to prove sibness. 1872 J. G. Michie Deeside Tales (1908) 9 People were wont to say of any inextricable problem, ‘ye might as soon unravel the sibness o' the Gordons o' Girnock’. c1892 J. Rankin in R. H. Storey Church of Scotl. II. 421 The relation of godfather and godmother which had nothing to do with bodily sibness at all. 1995 S. Blackhall in N. R. MacCallum & D. Purves Make it New 8 She hid expected tae feel instant sibness, a surge o mitherhood. ΚΠ a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 275 A ihesu..þu wið þi fairnesse..þu wið sibnesse, þu wið alle þe þinges þat man mai luue wið bugge, haues mi luue chepet. a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1849) I. 386 Thair was never twa thingis..sa straitlie joynit togiddir as God and man is. Thair was never sic sibnes betwixt twa thingis. 1638 A. Henderson Serm., Prayers & Pulpit Addresses (1867) 392 His principal sibness was not because he was to come of David's seed, but because David had the spirit of Christ. 1744 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) III. 216 The wondrous sibness between Christ and His Church. c. In extended use. Relatedness through a common tie or characteristic; affinity, similarity to another person or thing. ΚΠ 1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & People iii. 47 Good Lawes are the sinewes of Societies; though they direct vs in outward things, yet they sticke fast on our Reason which beeing in kind but one in all men, maketh a great sibnesse of Notions in all. 1729 R. Wodrow Analecta (1842) IV. 67 I mark it here because of its sibness with this. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin viii. 79 Hoo then could the twa places hae ony sibness to any anither? 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man looks at Thistle 83 Sibness to snakes wha's coils Rin coonter airts at yince. 2003 Rep. Inq. Role Educ. & Cultural Policy (SCOTS) Scots baith benefits an taks skaith frae the fact that it shares sib origin, forby muckle sib vocabulary, wi English. The sibness is geyan like that atween the Scandic Leids, or atween Dutch an German, or atween thae o Latin origin. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] kinc825 sibOE kindredOE sibness?a1300 kindc1325 affinity1357 cousinagea1382 cognationc1384 kinhoodc1440 kinsfolkc1450 evenkina1500 relation1502 kindsfolk1555 folks1715 cousinhood1748 loved onea1756 parentage1768 concerns1818 belonging1842 cousinry1844 cousinship1865 kinspeople1866 kinfolk1873 ?a1300 Vision St. Paul (Digby) l. 109 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1879) 62 404/1 Þe wreieþ his sibnesse oþer his steleþ Abouen his heien þe flod heleþ. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.a1250 |
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