单词 | sisterhood |
释义 | sisterhoodn. 1. a. The state, condition, or fact of being a sister (in various senses); sisterly status; esp. the relation of a sister (sister n. 1a) to a sibling, or the relationship between sisters. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > sisterly condition or relationship sisterheada1393 sisterhooda1393 sistership1793 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4205 That was unto Creusa sent.., For Sosterhode hem was betuene. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 103 Thanne..Sosterhode of mariage Was torned into cousinage. 1599 T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. F3 My houshold was not like the tent of Loue,..No place for sister-hood within my towers. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lxxii. 105 She..left to doo the part Of sisterhood, to doo that of a wife. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Demi-lict,..brotherhood, or sisterhood, on th' one side only. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 407 There is a kinde of natural equality in Sisterhood. 1708 T. Baker Fine Lady's Airs iii. i. 26 I know a Set of kept Mistresses that..live in perfect Sisterhood like the Grand Seignor's Seraglio. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. ciii. 12 Her last leave of love and sisterhood. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 168 I will but salute you with the kiss of sisterhood. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xxii. 508 Connected by colonial sisterhood with the Chalkidic settlements. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xviii. 6 They acknowledged in her a sisterhood of youth and health. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out (1920) xvii. 226 Susan Warrington in particular was conscious of the sweetest sense of sisterhood. 1953 Western Observer (Anson, Texas) 26 Mar. The club strives to give the members and alumni the feeling of true sisterhood. 1983 M. Angelou in Essence May 112/1 I don't believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings... Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. 2017 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 8 July (Weekend section) 3 Sisterhood is a much underrated relationship, but it's one family tie that I know so well. b. spec. In feminist use: unity or solidarity among women advocating or supporting female rights and equality. ΚΠ 1914 Bk. News Monthly (U.S.) Jan. 226/1 I believe in the growing sisterhood of women. 1968 Notes from First Year June 18 Sisterhood is powerful! 1980 J. R. Richards Sceptical Feminist i. 28 Basic to much recent feminist practice has been the idea of sisterhood, which..involves a determination among members of the women's movement to work together as equals. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 18 May Sisterhood, collectivism, solidarity and unionism redress power imbalances between powerful men and powerless women. 2. a. An association or community of women who live together, esp. in a religious order, or who are otherwise devoted to religious life or charitable work. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > condition of being nunnerya1350 sisterheada1393 nunryc1450 sistership1535 sisterhood?1540 nunnishness1570 nunship1624 the veil1791 nunhooda1834 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > an association of women > a sisterhood sisterheada1393 sorority1532 sisterhood?1540 sorory1600 sisternity1603 ?1540 in tr. Erasmus Dialoge Two Persons To Rdr. sig. ✠iiij Some there be that alway seke halowes, and go vpon pylgramages vnder a pretense of holynes, whervpon thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes be now inuented. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 157 Ile dispose of thee, Among a Sisterhood of holy Nunnes. View more context for this quotation 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxix. 362 Amongst your Sisterhood I know are amorous Wenches some. 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 80 Own yourself and the rest of your sister-hood to be cheats. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶3 To look out a Sisterhood of Nuns among whom to place his Daughter. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. ix. 175 When she took the vows..few of the present sisterhood, I believe, were witnesses of the ceremony. 1866 Church Times 1 Sept. 277/2 The various works of charity which are chiefly conducted by Sisterhoods. 1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. i. 10 The first impression from life of the secluded Sisterhoods was given me at the Convent of St. Michael. 1948 John o' London's Weekly 10 Dec. 599/1 Frances was a pious high Churchwoman who intended to enrol herself in a Puseyite sisterhood. 2003 Victorian Lit. & Culture 31 316 She moved amongst various religious circles, mainly female-oriented, including an Anglican Sisterhood. b. A body or group of women linked by a shared interest, characteristic, experience, etc. Later spec. in feminist use (chiefly with the): a body or group of women advocating or supporting female rights and equality. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a division of human society > having values or interests in common > of women sisterhood1586 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xi. 45 He sees, and smiles, and longs perhaps for more: No maruell, for that Sister-hood had goodlie Ladies store. 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore sig. Fv You faire creatures of my sister-hoode, I wish this my discourse may do you good. a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iv. iii. 20 in 3 New Playes (1655) I will build An Hospital only for noseless Bawds,..and be my self The Governess of the Sisterhood. 1718 Free-thinker No. 70. 1 Have the whole Sisterhood of Canting Females banished to some Desart Island. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 212 One of the sisterhood, a little stale, advised me to take lodgings in a part of the town where I was unknown. 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Odes to Mr. Paine 3 The sisterhood of Billingsgate shall throng. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 278 She lacked..the decided boldness and effrontery of her sisterhood. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere i. 3 Those members of the female sex..who agitate questions they know nothing about. The Saturday Review calls the latter the ‘Shrieking Sisterhood’. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 82 Lady Dolly and her sisterhood were audacious but cowardly. 1929 G. F. H. Atherton Dido iii. xiii. 256 Better let him go than join the sisterhood of fools. 1981 Times 9 Sept. 9/3 Sarah Daniels must count as a second generation feminist, and if this first play is a portent of what the sisterhood is now brewing up then male chauvinism can breathe again. 2017 Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 Sept. What will the Labour sisterhood make of the sexist language being deployed by the union? c. figurative. A group or association of things likened to sisters, esp. in having shared features. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > a number of things classed together class1583 coveya1592 parcel1607 batch1616 sisterhood1616 clan1667 band1690 set1690 lot1710 group1718 brotherhood1728 kit1785 package1947 1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 24 The youngest Daughter of this faire Sister-hood, is Fayth. 1659 W. Shipton Dia 15 The Sisterhood of flowers do bring, Their vernall bloomings from the Spring. 1771 J. Foot Penseroso iii. 134 Next rolling to the earth's high rising flames, The lucid sisterhood of planets feel The dire effusions of the hot distress. 1839 J. W. Donaldson New Cratylus i. iv. 80 The Celtic nations, the claim of whose speech to a place in the Indo-Germanic sisterhood has lately been established. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2038 A sisterhood of churches covering a large section of country. 1920 Musical Times 61 519/1 There are undoubtedly secondary levels on which the arts may meet and form a sisterhood. 1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxvii. 447 I steered her beneath the great sisterhood of stars unfurling in the night sky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1393 |
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