world's endn.

Brit.

/ˌwəːldz ˈɛnd/, U.S.

/ˌwərldz ˈɛnd/

Forms:

α. Old English weorulde ende, Old English wiaralde ende (Kentish), Old English worlde ende, Old English–early Middle English worulde ende, early Middle English weorlde ende.

β. Old English woruldes ende (rare), early Middle English werrldess ende ( Ormulum), Middle English warldes end, Middle English warldis end, Middle English warlds end, Middle English werldes ende, Middle English werldis end, Middle English werlds end, Middle English wordles ende, Middle English worldis ende, Middle English wrldes ende, Middle English–1600s worldes end, Middle English–1600s worldes ende, 1500s–1600s worlds ende, 1500s–1700s 1900s– worlds end, 1600s– world's end; also Scottish pre-1700 wardillis end, pre-1700 wardlis ende, pre-1700 warldis end, pre-1700 warldlis end, 1900s– warlt's end.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: world n., end n.

Etymology: < the genitive of world n. + end n.In α. forms in Old English and early Middle English in genitive form worulde (with the usual -e ending of a strong feminine noun); see discussion at world n. With sense 1 (especially in phrase to the world's end) compare post-classical Latin phrases containing saeculum , e.g. ad finem saeculi (9th cent. in a British source), usque a consummationem saeculi (Vulgate: Matthew 28:20, the final words of this gospel), the latter after Hellenistic Greek ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος ; compare:OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 20 Ic beo mid eow ealle dagas oð worulde geendunge. Compare Anglo-Norman la fin del monde (1212), Middle French jusques en la fin du monde (a1393; French jusqu'à la fin du monde ), also Old French la fin del siecle (c1100; Middle French, French la fin du siècle , now obsolete in sense ‘end of the world’). With sense 2 compare the ends (also end) of (the) earth at earth n.¹ Phrases 3 and the foreign-language parallels cited at that lemma. Compare also Middle French, French le bout du monde (1339).

Usually with the.

1. The end or destruction of the world or of life on earth, spec. the Day of Judgement. Occasionally attributive. Cf. world-end n. at world n. Compounds 8. to the world's end and variants: as long as human life shall last, until the end of time.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse

world's endeOE

dayOE

doomsdayc975

world-endOE

'pocalypseOE

last dayc1275

judgementa1325

assize1340

Great Dayc1350

accounta1400

day of retributiona1400

latter day1533

Judgement Day1544

audit1548

after-reckoning1567

revelation-day1654

Fifth monarchy1655

long account1665

account day1671

kingdom come1858

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

eschaton1935

eOE (Kentish) Charter: Lufu to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1197) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 8 Ic bidde.., ðet he ðas god forðleste oð wiaralde ende.

OE Homily: Apocalypse of Thomas (Corpus Cambr. 41) in Anglia (1955) 73 17 Twa ceastra wæron from fruman woro[l]de, oðre timbreð ure drihten Crist, oþre timbreð dioful.., & ðas twa ceastra monnacynne from fruman middangeardes oð worulde ende timbreð & fylleð.

OE Wulfstan Luke on Last Days (Hatton 113) 125 Eac hit awriten is, ðæt sunne aþystrað ær worulde ende & mona adeorcað.

lOE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 303) in J. Bazire & J. E. Cross Eleven Old Eng. Rogationtide Homilies (1989) 63 He sceal ceowan his agene tungan and hi eft aspiwan; þæt sceal beon æfre his weorc oð ðe woruldes ende.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 172 Oððet Drihten asende hine [sc. Elias] æft hider on middænearde ær worldes ende.

a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 235 Seðe þes middenard was ȝestaþeled, fram þa forme man to þa latst þe wrð et þes wrldes ende, nas tid ne tyme ne ne wrð þat god ne send gode mænn his folc forte ȝelaðie to his rice.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 199 (MED) Fram oure louerdes bur [a1400 Trin. Cambr. bure, ?a1425 Digby birþe, c1425 Harl. burþe] tyme to þe worldes ende iwis.

c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 61 (MED) Þe kyng..þouȝt to make..a monument of stone þat myȝt endure to þe worldes ende.

c1430 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1882) v. l. 1058 Allas of me vn-to þe worldis ende Schal noþer ben wretyn noþer I-songe No good word.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1998) I. l. 1678 (MED) How many soules shullen wende To heuene after þe worldes ende?

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 184^v Thurgh the craft of þat cursed, knighthode may shame And wary all our werkes to the worldes end.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 2/2 This rule..whiche shal remaine of strength vnto the worldes end.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 108 Time himselfe is bald, and therefore to the worlds end, will haue bald followers.

1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 337 Those who feared that the Suns swounding did foretoken the world's end.

1663 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence (ed. 3) 230 The heir of a Knight in the right line shall be an Esquire to the worlds end.

1715 R. Manning Shortest Way to end Disputes ii. 241 Gather such Texts from Scripture, as are found to be spoken against the Wicked, ‘who will continue mix'd with the Good to the World's End’.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. 46 He owned himself hers, in all fair and honest fealty, to the world's end.

1864 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 102/1 Beautiful daughters of beautiful mothers will exist to the world's end.

1915 H. O. Taylor Deliverance iv. 73 A vision which looks across the plain of battle to the final victory, at the world's end.

1924 W. B. Yeats Gift Haroun El Rashid l. 18 in Eng. Life & Illustrated Rev. Jan. 61/1 Pause at the treatise of Parmenides And hide it there, for Califs to world's end Must keep that perfect.

1994 Kindred Spirit Autumn 90/2 A pattern of doom and gloom, culminating in a ‘world's end’ prophecy.

1997 T. Nairn in L. Paterson Diverse Assembly 1998 iv. 280 The most effective truth..is that in this Kingdom—which ‘one’ (Dayell, the Queen, Tony Blair, etc.) wishes to keep united to the world's end—we never will.

2. The farthest limit of the earth; (chiefly used hyperbolically, esp.) the farthest attainable point of travel; (also) a very remote or out-of-the way place. Occasionally attributive. Cf. world-end n. at world n. Compounds 8, the ends (also end) of (the) earth at earth n.¹ Phrases 3.Sometimes used (with capital initials) as the proper name of remote localities or houses, esp. formerly, of certain inns kept for illicit purposes (cf. quot. 1695).

ΘΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place

utmostc825

world-endOE

world's endc1275

utteresta1300

utmostsa1382

uttermost1382

uttermosta1390

arsea1600

apogee1670

jumping-off place1826

Timbuctoo1863

arse-end1896

ass-end1960

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3659 We beoð in ane æit-londe at þere worldes ende at-stonde þe Bruttes biwunne.

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 62 Hire to seche ihc wille iwende, Þeȝ heo beo at þe wordles ende.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 4156 Weste he seid he wild wend to wynne to þe werldis end [a1450 Lamb. wordles ende].

1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 108 Let him rule from the one sea vnto the tother and from the floude Euphrates vnto the worldes ende [L. usque ad terminos orbis terrarum].

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 247 Will your grace command me any seruice to the worldes end? I will go on the slightest arrand now to the Antypodes.

1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 13 Is it for this (say they) that they haue sent him to the worlds end.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 28 Poor innocent! you don't know that there's a place call'd the World's-End?

1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) He lives at the World's end (or a great way off).

1777 S. Johnson Let. 27 Sept. (1992) III. 77 I know not when I shall write..now you [are] going to the world's end.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 90 Now we stand On the world's-end-land!

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 216 We saw..the fresh footprints of a Kaffir, and resolved to follow that to the world's end.

1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 3 Apr. (1994) III. 55 It was like watching people wavering on the edge of infinity, somewhere at the Worlds End.

1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. i. 248 From World's End then he turned away.

1994 Times (Nexis) 20 July The development of Kazakhstan's Bakyrchik gold mine proves Man will go to the world's end, and take on any hurdles in his way, to dig for gold.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	worlds end
释义	world's endn. Brit. /ˌwəːldz ˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˌwərldz ˈɛnd/ Forms: α. Old English weorulde ende, Old English wiaralde ende (Kentish), Old English worlde ende, Old English–early Middle English worulde ende, early Middle English weorlde ende. β. Old English woruldes ende (rare), early Middle English werrldess ende ( Ormulum), Middle English warldes end, Middle English warldis end, Middle English warlds end, Middle English werldes ende, Middle English werldis end, Middle English werlds end, Middle English wordles ende, Middle English worldis ende, Middle English wrldes ende, Middle English–1600s worldes end, Middle English–1600s worldes ende, 1500s–1600s worlds ende, 1500s–1700s 1900s– worlds end, 1600s– world's end; also Scottish pre-1700 wardillis end, pre-1700 wardlis ende, pre-1700 warldis end, pre-1700 warldlis end, 1900s– warlt's end. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: world n., end n. Etymology: < the genitive of world n. + end n.In α. forms in Old English and early Middle English in genitive form worulde (with the usual -e ending of a strong feminine noun); see discussion at world n. With sense 1 (especially in phrase to the world's end) compare post-classical Latin phrases containing saeculum , e.g. ad finem saeculi (9th cent. in a British source), usque a consummationem saeculi (Vulgate: Matthew 28:20, the final words of this gospel), the latter after Hellenistic Greek ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος ; compare:OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 20 Ic beo mid eow ealle dagas oð worulde geendunge. Compare Anglo-Norman la fin del monde (1212), Middle French jusques en la fin du monde (a1393; French jusqu'à la fin du monde ), also Old French la fin del siecle (c1100; Middle French, French la fin du siècle , now obsolete in sense ‘end of the world’). With sense 2 compare the ends (also end) of (the) earth at earth n.¹ Phrases 3 and the foreign-language parallels cited at that lemma. Compare also Middle French, French le bout du monde (1339). Usually with the. 1. The end or destruction of the world or of life on earth, spec. the Day of Judgement. Occasionally attributive. Cf. world-end n. at world n. Compounds 8. to the world's end and variants: as long as human life shall last, until the end of time. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse world's endeOE dayOE doomsdayc975 world-endOE 'pocalypseOE last dayc1275 judgementa1325 assize1340 Great Dayc1350 accounta1400 day of retributiona1400 latter day1533 Judgement Day1544 audit1548 after-reckoning1567 revelation-day1654 Fifth monarchy1655 long account1665 account day1671 kingdom come1858 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 eschaton1935 eOE (Kentish) Charter: Lufu to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1197) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 8 Ic bidde.., ðet he ðas god forðleste oð wiaralde ende. OE Homily: Apocalypse of Thomas (Corpus Cambr. 41) in Anglia (1955) 73 17 Twa ceastra wæron from fruman woro[l]de, oðre timbreð ure drihten Crist, oþre timbreð dioful.., & ðas twa ceastra monnacynne from fruman middangeardes oð worulde ende timbreð & fylleð. OE Wulfstan Luke on Last Days (Hatton 113) 125 Eac hit awriten is, ðæt sunne aþystrað ær worulde ende & mona adeorcað. lOE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 303) in J. Bazire & J. E. Cross Eleven Old Eng. Rogationtide Homilies (1989) 63 He sceal ceowan his agene tungan and hi eft aspiwan; þæt sceal beon æfre his weorc oð ðe woruldes ende. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 172 Oððet Drihten asende hine [sc. Elias] æft hider on middænearde ær worldes ende. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 235 Seðe þes middenard was ȝestaþeled, fram þa forme man to þa latst þe wrð et þes wrldes ende, nas tid ne tyme ne ne wrð þat god ne send gode mænn his folc forte ȝelaðie to his rice. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 199 (MED) Fram oure louerdes bur [a1400 Trin. Cambr. bure, ?a1425 Digby birþe, c1425 Harl. burþe] tyme to þe worldes ende iwis. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 61 (MED) Þe kyng..þouȝt to make..a monument of stone þat myȝt endure to þe worldes ende. c1430 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1882) v. l. 1058 Allas of me vn-to þe worldis ende Schal noþer ben wretyn noþer I-songe No good word. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1998) I. l. 1678 (MED) How many soules shullen wende To heuene after þe worldes ende? c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 184^v Thurgh the craft of þat cursed, knighthode may shame And wary all our werkes to the worldes end. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 2/2 This rule..whiche shal remaine of strength vnto the worldes end. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 108 Time himselfe is bald, and therefore to the worlds end, will haue bald followers. View more context for this quotation 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 337 Those who feared that the Suns swounding did foretoken the world's end. 1663 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence (ed. 3) 230 The heir of a Knight in the right line shall be an Esquire to the worlds end. 1715 R. Manning Shortest Way to end Disputes ii. 241 Gather such Texts from Scripture, as are found to be spoken against the Wicked, ‘who will continue mix'd with the Good to the World's End’. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. 46 He owned himself hers, in all fair and honest fealty, to the world's end. 1864 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 102/1 Beautiful daughters of beautiful mothers will exist to the world's end. 1915 H. O. Taylor Deliverance iv. 73 A vision which looks across the plain of battle to the final victory, at the world's end. 1924 W. B. Yeats Gift Haroun El Rashid l. 18 in Eng. Life & Illustrated Rev. Jan. 61/1 Pause at the treatise of Parmenides And hide it there, for Califs to world's end Must keep that perfect. 1994 Kindred Spirit Autumn 90/2 A pattern of doom and gloom, culminating in a ‘world's end’ prophecy. 1997 T. Nairn in L. Paterson Diverse Assembly 1998 iv. 280 The most effective truth..is that in this Kingdom—which ‘one’ (Dayell, the Queen, Tony Blair, etc.) wishes to keep united to the world's end—we never will. 2. The farthest limit of the earth; (chiefly used hyperbolically, esp.) the farthest attainable point of travel; (also) a very remote or out-of-the way place. Occasionally attributive. Cf. world-end n. at world n. Compounds 8, the ends (also end) of (the) earth at earth n.¹ Phrases 3.Sometimes used (with capital initials) as the proper name of remote localities or houses, esp. formerly, of certain inns kept for illicit purposes (cf. quot. 1695). ΘΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place utmostc825 world-endOE world's endc1275 utteresta1300 utmostsa1382 uttermost1382 uttermosta1390 arsea1600 apogee1670 jumping-off place1826 Timbuctoo1863 arse-end1896 ass-end1960 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3659 We beoð in ane æit-londe at þere worldes ende at-stonde þe Bruttes biwunne. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 62 Hire to seche ihc wille iwende, Þeȝ heo beo at þe wordles ende. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 4156 Weste he seid he wild wend to wynne to þe werldis end [a1450 Lamb. wordles ende]. 1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 108 Let him rule from the one sea vnto the tother and from the floude Euphrates vnto the worldes ende [L. usque ad terminos orbis terrarum]. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 247 Will your grace command me any seruice to the worldes end? I will go on the slightest arrand now to the Antypodes. View more context for this quotation 1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 13 Is it for this (say they) that they haue sent him to the worlds end. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 28 Poor innocent! you don't know that there's a place call'd the World's-End? 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) He lives at the World's end (or a great way off). 1777 S. Johnson Let. 27 Sept. (1992) III. 77 I know not when I shall write..now you [are] going to the world's end. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 90 Now we stand On the world's-end-land! 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 216 We saw..the fresh footprints of a Kaffir, and resolved to follow that to the world's end. 1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 3 Apr. (1994) III. 55 It was like watching people wavering on the edge of infinity, somewhere at the Worlds End. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. i. 248 From World's End then he turned away. 1994 Times (Nexis) 20 July The development of Kazakhstan's Bakyrchik gold mine proves Man will go to the world's end, and take on any hurdles in his way, to dig for gold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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