单词 | your matronship |
释义 | > as lemmasyour matronship 1. The character of a matron. Chiefly humorously with possessive adjective, as a title of mock respect given to a matron, as your matronship. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > personality of your matronshipc1550 c1550 J. Cheke Let. (modernized text) in Athenæum (1909) 28 Aug. 237/2 Needing time and warning to grow to a more womanlyness and matronship. 1591 J. Lyly Endimion ii. ii. sig. C4v I crye your Matronship mercy. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote III. xxxvii. 264 But for her Matronship, I like it, that ye stir not a Foot. 1721 T. D'Urfey Grecian Heroine iii. ii, in New Opera's 120 Is your Matronship grown mad o th' sudden. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xv. 81 Which time only can answer to your judicious matronship's satisfaction. < as lemmas |
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