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单词 whole brother
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whole brother
b. Modifying a noun denoting a family relationship: having the specified relationship through both parents, esp. in whole brother, whole sister; = full adj. 5d. Cf. half-brother n., half-sister n., whole blood n. 1.
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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. l. 375 Ac alle þat beth myne hole bretheren in blode & in baptesme.
1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man sig. k.iv It is also further forbydden, that any man shall marry with hys syster, whether she be his hole syster, or his halfe syster begotten in mariage, or out of mariage.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. 893 He made suite for his owne naturall and whole brother by both sides [L. pro fratre germano], & not for a cousin german.
1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 21 John duke of Ostrogothia..conceived the idea of espousing Maria Elizabetha, the young king's whole sister, and his own first cousin.
1796 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 272/1 His whole-brother, Edward, married Martha, daughter of Sir John Roberts, knt.
1884 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 171/1 After her marriage his half-sister slipped away from Mr. Talbert's life. As whole sisters and brothers so often do the same this fact is not astonishing.
1903 Biometrika 2 59 If we examine the case of man we find only three types of fraternal relationship, i.e. whole siblings or half-siblings on mother's or father's side.
2010 C. Bird Sultan's Shadow ii. viii. 92 There were no two whole brothers among Seyyid Said's surviving children, though there were whole sisters.
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