单词 | single life |
释义 | > as lemmassingle life b. Of, pertaining to, or involving celibacy, esp. in single life.For the phrase single blessedness at blessedness n. b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [adjective] > relating to or involving unmarried state onlepya1450 unmarried1536 single1549 sole1553 never-married1822 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Cor. viii. f. lv As in my other letters I required you not to leade a syngle lyfe. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) 1 Cor. Argt. He answereth to certeine pointes..touching single life. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 596 Lawes were enacted touching the single life of Priests. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 25 A single life is proper for Churchmen. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 112. ⁋6 They that have grown old in a single state. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt i. 3 A single service is best suited to me. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales viii. 153 But shall his Bride your single state reproach? 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. iv. 141 Without having changed her state of single-unblessedness. < as lemmas |
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