| 单词 | single blessedness |
| 释义 | > as lemmassingle blessedness b. single blessedness: used by Shakespeare to express ‘divine blessing accorded to a life of celibacy’; hence (more or less jocularly), the unmarried state. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > state or condition of singleness1560 single blessedness1600 unweddedness1830 singledom1851 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 78 Earthlyer happy is the rose distild, Then that, which, withering on the virgin thorne, Growes, liues, and dies, in single blessednesse . View more context for this quotation 1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 160 She was one whom single blessedness had soured. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 2 Single blessedness, as bachelors say, or single cursedness, as spinsters think. < as lemmas |
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