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单词 youngth
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youngthn.

Forms:

α. Middle English ȝingþe, Middle English ȝinkþe, Middle English ȝyngheth, Middle English ȝyngth, Middle English ȝynkith, Middle English þingþe (transmission error).

β. Middle English ȝongh (transmission error), Middle English ȝongthe, Middle English ȝongþe, Middle English ȝonkeþ, Middle English ȝonkþe, Middle English ȝonthe, Middle English ȝonþe, Middle English ȝoungeþ, Middle English ȝoungþe, Middle English ȝungth, Middle English ȝungth'e, Middle English ȝungthe, Middle English ȝungþe, Middle English ȝunþe, Middle English yonghthe, Middle English yongith, Middle English yongthe, Middle English yonthe, Middle English–1500s yongth, 1500s youngthe, 1500s–1600s youngth; N.E.D. (1921) also records forms Middle English youngthe, Middle English youngþe, late Middle English ȝonþ.

γ. Middle English ȝengthe, Middle English ȝengþe, Middle English ȝenkþe.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: young adj., -th suffix1.
Etymology: < young adj. + -th suffix1. Compare Middle Dutch joncde (Dutch regional (south) jongde , jongte ). Compare earlier youth n. Compare also younghead n.1, youngness n.
Obsolete.
1. The state of being young; the period of life when one is young; = youth n. 1, 2.With quot. 1602 cf. note at youth n. 4.
ΘΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun]
youthc897
youngheada1300
youngthc1330
juvent1377
juventy1377
first youtha1387
youthheada1400
joyfnesc1400
junessec1430
young daysa1464
juventudec1470
younga1475
youngness?1505
flower?1507
juventute1541
prime tide1549
spring1553
April1583
springtime1583
nonage1584
prime1584
flowering youth1586
primrose1590
greenc1595
dancing-days1599
primrose-time1606
leaping timea1616
salad daysa1616
minority1632
juvenency1656
coltagec1720
youdith1723
veal-bones1785
whelphood1847
colthood1865
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 6269 Þe leuedis..hadde wonder of his ȝingþe.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 2807 Yn ȝungþe or elde.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 47 He..servid god in all the tyme of his yongith.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxi. sig. fiv I haue knowen men of worshippe..whiche durynge their yongth haue dronken for the more parte water.
1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 34 The fresh yong flie, in whom the kindly fire Of lustfull youngth began to kindle fast.
1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. C 12 Ah Thenot, be not all thy teeth on edge, To see youngths folke to sport in pastimes gay?
2. Young people collectively; = youth n. 5.
ΘΠ
the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young people collectively
youngeOE
youthc897
maidhooda1200
youngth1484
youthhead1562
frya1577
younkery1594
Jack and Jill1621
jeunesse1673
youthhood1690
juvenility1823
jeunesse dorée1828
flaming youth1923
yoof1986
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxi. 161 The goddesse Venus whiche hath grete power vpon yongthe.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. **vij The vnbroken youngth not yet full rype for the serious preceptes of philosophie.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vi. vi. f. clvi There had bene in times paste certen other statures and images, broken by the yongth of the town.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 23 The Courte, a place most dangerous for youngthe to liue in, without great grace, good regarde, and diligent looking to.

Derivatives

youngthed adj. made young.
ΘΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > becoming or made young
youngthedc1450
juvenescent1821
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iii. l. 126 His body is yongthed [c1475 Rawl. ȝonthyd], he thenketh, and strenghed in myght.
youngthly adj. of or relating to youth, youthful.
ΘΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > relating to or intended for youth
youthlyc900
youthful1561
youngthly1579
younkerly1579
youngling1582
juvenile1661
junior1860
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. f. 50 My age now passed youngthly pryme, To thinges of ryper reason selfe applyed.
1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. C 11v All for he feeles the heate of youngthly dayes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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