单词 | your brotherliness |
释义 | > as lemmasyour brotherliness 1. Christian Church. With possessive adjective, as your brotherliness. A title of respect or form of address used by one ecclesiastical dignitary of high rank to another, esp. a bishop. historical in later use.Now usually with capital initial.In quots. eOE1, eOE2 rendering post-classical Latin fraternitas in a letter of Pope Gregory I to Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xvi. 64 Ac forðon þin broðorlicnes [OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. broðorlicnys; L. fraternitas] is in mynstres regolum getyd & gelæred, ne scealt þu hwæþre sundor beon from þinum geferum in Ongolcircan. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xvi. 74 Alle Bretta biscopas we bebeodað þinre broðorlicnesse, to ðon þætte unlærde seon gelærede. 1842 tr. Anselm of Canterbury in Brit. Critic Jan. 168 I needs must grieve with your Brotherliness, as one who the more he is exalted, is loaded with the greater tribulation. 1843 J. M. Neale Agnes de Tracy ii. i. 123 The letter of your brotherlinesses (which yet we can hardly believe to have proceeded from your common wisdom) we have..unexpectedly received. 1908 L. B. Radford Henry Beaufort viii. 147 The Pope wrote to..John de Obicis, papal collector in England,..to urge him to thank ‘his brotherliness’ (the bishop). 1999 R. W. Mathisen tr. Ruricius of Limoges in Ruricius of Limoges & Friends 124 I received the words of Your Brotherliness which rendered me not a little uneasy. < as lemmas |
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