yourspron.adj.

Brit.

/jɔːz/,

/jʊəz/, U.S.

/jɔrz/,

/jʊ(ə)rz/,

/jərz/

Forms: early Middle English owres (west midlands), Middle English ȝhurs, Middle English ȝores, Middle English ȝoures, Middle English ȝouris, Middle English ȝours, Middle English ȝourys, Middle English ȝowers, Middle English ȝowres, Middle English ȝowris, Middle English ȝowrs, Middle English ȝowrys, Middle English ȝures, Middle English ȝuris, Middle English yores, Middle English yors, Middle English youreȝ, Middle English yourez, Middle English youris, Middle English yourys, Middle English yowris, Middle English yowrys, Middle English yurs, Middle English–1500s yorys, Middle English–1500s yowres, Middle English–1500s yowrs, Middle English–1600s youres, Middle English–1600s yowers, Middle English– yours, 1700s (1800s nonstandard) your's; English regional 1800s yars (East Anglian), 1800s yoars (Lancashire), 1800s yurs (Devon), 1800s– yahrs (Yorkshire), 1800s– yers (Devon), 1800s– yores (Shropshire), 1800s– yors (chiefly northern), 1800s– yowers (northern); Scottish pre-1700 ȝhoures, pre-1700 ȝhouris, pre-1700 ȝouris, pre-1700 ȝours, pre-1700 ȝowris, pre-1700 ȝurez, pre-1700 yhouris, pre-1700 yhourz, pre-1700 yhowris, pre-1700 youres, pre-1700 youris, pre-1700 yourris, pre-1700 yovris, pre-1700 yowris, pre-1700 yowrs, pre-1700 1700s– yours. N.E.D. (1921) also records a form Middle English ȝurs.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: your pron., English -s.

Etymology: < your pron. + genitive ending -s; compare hers pron.¹, ours pron., theirs pron. Compare yourn pron. On the history of use with singular reference see discussion at you pron., adj., and n.In Old English (and in early Middle English in late copies of material of Old English composition) ēowres occurs as the regular masculine and neuter genitive singular of the possessive adjective ēower your adj. (compare e.g. quots. OE², c1175 at your adj. 1a(a)); there is also an isolated attestation in Old English of this form (neuter genitive) used as a noun in sense ‘that which belongs to you’ (compare sense A. 3c):OE Laws of Æðelstan (Corpus Cambr. 201) i. v. 148 Nelle ic, þæt ge me mid unrihte ahwar aht gestrynan; ac ic wille eowres geunnan eow rihtlice [OE Nero ic wille eowres agenes geunnan eow rihtlice; L. sed omnia uestra uobis concedo], on þa gerad þe ge me geunnan mines. Compare also the irregular construction represented by Old English ēowres (the masculine and neuter genitive singular of the possessive adjective) in collocation with an indefinite pronoun (in the genitive case), in which ēowres is apparently functioning as the genitive of the personal pronoun (the expected form is ēower your pron.) and both words are in agreement with each other (quot. c1475 appears to show a similar isolated use in Middle English); see B. Mitchell Old Eng. Syntax (1985) §301. There is unlikely to be any continuity of use between these constructions and yours pron. For examples compare:OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxiii. 243 Gelyfað ge me nu þyses, þæt in næniges eowres muð [L. in nullius uestrum ore] nu todæge ne cymþ hlaf, buton þes cniht si genered ær.lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxx. 305 Gif ge willað þone fruman sceaft geþencan..& siððan eowres ælces acennednesse.c1475 Brome Abraham & Isaac in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 54 I schall mvltyplye ȝowrys botherys sede As thyke as sterrys be in the skye.

A. pron.

1. Equivalent to your with a noun supplied from the context. Frequently paired or contrasted with another possessive.See also up yours at up prep.² 3b.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 28 Vich haue speken of owre fowr wittes, & of Godes fowere, hu he þurh hise froures ow, as ofte as ȝe in owres [?c1225 Cleo. ouwer, c1230 Corpus Cambr. ower, a1250 Nero ouwer wittes, c1390 Vernon ouren] felin anj orne.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2798 Leuedi, k[r]istes ore, And youres!

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5061 Knauing of yours haue i nan.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 68 The kynge that is my lorde and yowres.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xli. 274 Our religion is true, and yours starke false.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 95 Let their beds be made as soft as yours .

1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 15 The practice of these Rules will help qualifie a Life of Action such as yours must be.

1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 25 With Virtue strong as yours had Eve been arm'd.

1777 J. Boswell Let. 29 Nov. in Life Johnson (1791) II. 179 I was, indeed, doubly uneasy;—on my own account and yours.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vii. 144 Such a father as yours.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. li. 84 ‘It shall [be done], sir,’ said Sampson. ‘Then give me your hand,’ retorted Quilp. ‘Sally, girl, yours.’

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Tie My dog tied yours, so they must run again.

1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 195 He seems to put his cards on the table and to be saying in the friendliest way: ‘That's my opinion. What's yours?’

1964 M. Kosloff Dial ‘P’ for Pleasure ix. 129 After all, you take my wife and I take yours—a fair swap.

2010 Your Cat Feb. 59/3 (caption) Kittens can't hold it, so make sure yours isn't caught short without a tray!

2. Predicatively: that which belongs to you.Formerly also occasionally with a postmodifying numerical or quantitative adjective, as yours both, yours two (cf. you pron. 3).See also all yours at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 19.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2800 (MED) Englond auhte forto ben youres.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1852 (MED) Thus am I youres evermo.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2068 Drightin graunt þat it be sua, þat al þis werld be yurs tua.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 17 Blissed be ȝe pore, for ȝours is þe kyngdome of god!

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 497 All hale my land sall ȝouris be.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2869 The felissheppe is yourez that yender ye see.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlv. C The goodes of all the lande of Egipte shalbe yours.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 536 If you'll a willing eare incline; What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. i. 39 in Wks. II All this Nether-world Is yours, you command it, and doe sway it.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 162 Moreover remember that boy which is yours both.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 31 Take all that an over-indulgent Monarch has enrich'd me with! these Jewels! these Bills must be yours!

a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 159 Take back, what once was yours.

1825 M. Edgeworth Harry & Lucy (1858) 174 You should not meddle with them; they are not yours.

1845 Lady Dufferin Lament Irish Emigrant 33 Yours was the good brave heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on.

1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 185 If you pay less than £40 a year rent, you will sometimes feel tempted to say to the..school attendance officer, and the sanitary inspector: ‘Is this child mine or yours?’

1974 L. Thomas Tropic of Ruislip ix. 178 ‘Blimey,’ she said. ‘There's one of the old pennies in here. That's not yours, is it?’

1982 V. Alcock Sylvia Game xxii. 148 Mallerton will be yours one day, and you need to toughen up, if you're going to be able to hold onto it.

1996 SFX May 96/2 Two different phaser sound effects are yours at the press of a button.

a. Those who are yours, esp. your family, kindred, or friends. Chiefly in you and yours.

ΘΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > relations and friends

kithc1000

thineOE

kith and kin1377

lyancec1380

you and yoursa1400

peoplea1425

alliance1548

homefolk1798

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17340 (MED) Als yee said, it sal..On yow and yours bath be sene.

c1465 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 70 Allmyty God have you in ys kepyng, and all yowrys.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 212 You & al yours shal be ryche for euer.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1722 Bothe to me & to myne mykull vnright, And to yow & also yours ȝomeryng for euer.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 92 Whose heauie hand Hath bow'd you to the Graue, and begger'd Yours for euer.

1635 E. Gorges Let. 12 July in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 247 Thus prayeing god to blese you with yours.

1645 King Charles I in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. ix. 14 Some considerations hinder me from doing all I would towards you and yours.

1706 C. Cibber Perolla & Izadora i. 44 I'm that wretched Maid forlorn, Whose long obedient Hate to you and yours, The forceful Virtues of Perolla have Dissolv'd.

1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World (1773) i. ii. 32 I had looked forward to some happy days, amidst a race of my Harriet's and yours.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 136 Yourself and yours shall have Free adit.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Jan. 6/2 We have..hung our latch-string out to you and yours.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 113/1 (advt.) It's natural—instinctive—for you to take good care of the home that gives you and yours this steadfast protection.

1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 21 Jan. 10/3 Thanks, plus L and K to you and yours.

1993 T. Murphy Thief of Christmas ii, in Plays: 2 218 As you and yours did for me an' mine!

b. of yours: that is (or are) yours; belonging to you (see of prep. 32).

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15409 If yee me oght of yurs giue.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1964 (MED) I ȝef yow me for on of yourez.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 344 He was..an old felawe of youres.

1471 E. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 634 Ȝe schuld borow of my brothere Ser John ore of sum othere frend of ȝowers.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiii^v Ane knyght of youris.

1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. viii. 9 Lest..thys libertye of yours be an occasyon of falling.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes Ep. Ded. sig. A2 That, that pure sanguine complexion of yours may neuer be famisht with potte-lucke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 212 She hath that Ring of yours .

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 255 By the raking pace of my Mule, quoth Rondibilis, I know not what Answer to make to this Problem of yours.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. Ded. p. iv So near a resemblance of Yours to the Young Prince.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 235 I receive by my orderly officer, two letters of yours upon the same subject.

1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 28 Jan. (1971) 165 The gown..is made by the very best dressmaker in Paris by a pattern body which I got my dear Fan to take from a gown of yours.

1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. 290 Some villanous slander, of course, there is, but it is no business of yours to be straking off to make it worse.

1902 C. J. Pidgin Stephen Holton 260 That was a mighty good idea of yours, Mr. Lethbridge.

1941 D. Thomas Let. 15 July (1987) 492 While looking through a drawer to find something..I came across an old letter of yours to me.

1979 New Scientist 18 Oct. 164/3 Imagine you are lying flat on a table, and a friend of yours comes along with a felt-tip pen.

2001 S. Armitage Little Green Man (2002) xxv. 160 So, how's that son of yours doing?

c. That which belongs to you; your property. Also: your affair, your business.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > that which is one's own > that which is mine, ours, his, hers, or yours

oureOE

hisOE

mineOE

thineOE

hernc1230

hersa1250

ourna1382

yourna1382

oursa1400

his'nc1425

yours1526

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun] > particular to someone

privy councilc1300

peculiar1611

yours1841

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. xii. 14 I seke not youres but you.

1841 E. Miall in Nonconf. 1 409 Be it your's to help him.

1919 W. W. Folwell Econ. Addr. 87 Mine is mine because yours is yours and all is ours. The right of each is the guaranty of all.

2006 B. Harshav & B. Harshav tr. I. Y. Shvarts in Sing, Stranger 644 Mine is mine and yours is yours.

2009 T.-S. L. Whittaker Millionaire Wives Club 42 This between me and my moms, not you, so mind yours.

d. In (esp. commercial) correspondence: your letter, the letter from you.

ΘΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > last, next, or your letter

yours1536

last1545

next1595

the favour of your letter1706

1536 E. Harvel in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. cxviii. 77 I have yours of the last of April.

1614 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 275 To yours of the last of Februarie I say I will not forgett to signify your mynd to Thomas Heathe att the first commoditie.

1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. iii. 5 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) I had yours of the last week.

1688 J. Nightingale Let. 2 Apr. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (2001) ii. 236 Yours of this date have received. The boy brought it to me about three a clock.

1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 308 I am favoured with yours of the 10th August.

1755 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) xi. 67 Pardon an observation on style: ‘I received yours’ is vulgar and mercantile; ‘your letter’ is the way of writing.

1775 R. Challoner in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxviii. 116 Yours with the enclosed draught for 50-ll. came safe to hand.

1821 Ld. Byron Let. 3 May (1978) VIII. 108 Though I wrote to you on the 28th ultimo, I must acknowledge yours of this day.

1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 40 The house mentioned in yours of the 3rd inst. is daily expected to stop payment.

1921 E. B. White Let. 6 Dec. (2006) ii. 27 Dear Mrs. Adams: In reply to yours of September 30th.

1955 R. Alexander Grand Prize 15 Dear Sirs: Yours of August 16th received and noted. We wish to inform you your requests have been met in every detail.

1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 13 I have yours of the 26th ult. and am much oblig'd for your kind opinion.

e. colloquial and British regional (originally East Anglian). Your home, your house, ‘your place’. Cf. mine pron. 3d.

ΚΠ

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Mine I shall go to-morrow to yours.

a1905 M. E. Rope in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 590/2 [Suffolk] I was going to yours.

1917 Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. 3 23 There is a peculiarity of speech by which an Essex man may often be detected—..the use of the word ‘his’ or ‘mine’ instead of ‘his house’, or ‘my house’. ‘Are you going to his to-night? No, he is coming to mine, unless we both come round to yours.’

1978 P. Fitzgerald Bookshop iii. 37 ‘Mr Raven got the key from the plumber,’ said one of the children... ‘He told us to come over to yours. What do you want doing?’

1991 A. A. Aidoo Changes vi. 44 Do you remember when you were still up north, and I stopped at yours for the weekend on my way back from Ouga?

2008 G. Coombs George moves On 24 ‘You all set for that?’ ‘Yeah, sure am, what time shall I come round yours later?’

f. colloquial. what's yours?: what would you like to drink (or eat)? Cf. what's your poison? at poison n. 4, mine pron. 3e.

ΚΠ

1873 Old & New July 78 What's yours, gentlemen?

1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 115/1 ‘What's yours, Fred?’ he asked. ‘Virginia ham and scrambled eggs,’ I replied.

1942 M. Wolff Night Shift xiii. 298 He dropped a little square paper napkin in front of Petey on the shining bar top. ‘What'll yours be?’

1982 P. Lovesey False Inspector Dew v. 177 What's yours, Inspector?

1997 G. Cochrane Blood xviii. 65 I'll get us some drinks. What's yours?

4. Used formulaically at the end of a letter; also such a formula used humorously to refer to oneself (chiefly in yours truly at truly adv. and n. Phrases 2). Cf. your adj. 4.Often qualified by an adverb or adverbial phrase, as yours etc., ever, faithfully, respectfully, sincerely, truly, etc.: see the final element.

ΚΠ

?1430 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 14 Yowres, William Paston.

1438–9 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 109 Be ȝo^rs in all thyng David Home of Wederburn.

1516 Ld. Dacre in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 133 At Kirkoswald the xxiij. daye of Auguste Yowrs with hyes serves Thomas Dacre.

1582 L. Kirby Let. 10 Jan. in W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. B5^v Yours to death and after death. Luke kirbie.

1596 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1952) XII. 413 Youris lefullie, ye watt quhoe.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) To Rdr. 350 Yours in aught erred to be conformed, W. Warner.

c1680 Let. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 75 Yours in the Lord, Subscribed, J. B.

1682 J. W. Let. from New-Eng. 9 end Sir, I shall trouble you no more at present, onely that I am Yours, J. W.

1718 Illustrious Mod. 19 I depend on your mighty Talent,..and on that Score, remain, Most Lovingly Yours.

1779 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 363 On Tuesday, Oct^r 5^th Mr., Mrs., Miss Thrale, and ‘yours, ma'am, yours’, set out on their Expedition.

1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne Ded. I am, most truly and faithfully your's, The Author.

1833 C. Dickens Let. ?Oct. (1965) I. 31 Pray give my love to Letitia; ‘accept the same from yours truly’ as schoolboys say.

1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xxvii It's ill..with yours obediently.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. xx. 256 And they were his faithfully, etc. ‘Hang their “yours faithfully”,’ banged out Ernest.

1916 Times 11 Feb. 7/6 Enclosing my card, I am yours faithfully, very-much-pro-Allied Hollander.

1988 Scribes Jrnl. Legal Writing 2 87 I think the complimentary close should be ‘Sincerely yours’, rather than just ‘Sincerely’.

2005 H. Mazer Heroes don't Run (2007) xviii. 80 Please be careful and stay safe! Yours, Helen.

B. adj.

As the first of two or more possessives modifying a following noun: = your adj. 1a.

c1534 T. Cranmer Let. in Remains (1833) I. 93 So that by yours and their agreement I may obtain the next lease.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 259 Yours, and my discharge.

1687 J. Bloome Let. 5 Oct. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (2001) II. 304 I shall as circumspectly as possible observe yours and Mr Whitings commands.

1710 J. Addison Let. to Swift 11 Apr. I suppose you know, that I obeyed your's, and the Bishop of Clogher's commands.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly 66 This adaptation of contending parts, as it has not been in our's, so it can never be in your's, or in any country, the effect [etc.].

1847 Ld. Tennyson Let. 24 Jan. (1981) I. 271 I have done yours and the young lady's commands.

1886 C. Gibbon Princess of Jutedom II. xi. 142 Why he should want to..blacken him in yours and in everybody else's thoughts?

1925 N. Sacco Let. 18 June in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti Lett. (1997) i. i. 28 With hope that it will be the last of yours and mine birthdays that we spend in this terrible and iniquitous bastile!

2010 D. Salomon Elem. Computer Security vi. 167 A friend may send you a free and beautiful screen saver that..inflicts much damage to both yours and your friend's computers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yours
释义	yourspron.adj. Brit. /jɔːz/, /jʊəz/, U.S. /jɔrz/, /jʊ(ə)rz/, /jərz/ Forms: early Middle English owres (west midlands), Middle English ȝhurs, Middle English ȝores, Middle English ȝoures, Middle English ȝouris, Middle English ȝours, Middle English ȝourys, Middle English ȝowers, Middle English ȝowres, Middle English ȝowris, Middle English ȝowrs, Middle English ȝowrys, Middle English ȝures, Middle English ȝuris, Middle English yores, Middle English yors, Middle English youreȝ, Middle English yourez, Middle English youris, Middle English yourys, Middle English yowris, Middle English yowrys, Middle English yurs, Middle English–1500s yorys, Middle English–1500s yowres, Middle English–1500s yowrs, Middle English–1600s youres, Middle English–1600s yowers, Middle English– yours, 1700s (1800s nonstandard) your's; English regional 1800s yars (East Anglian), 1800s yoars (Lancashire), 1800s yurs (Devon), 1800s– yahrs (Yorkshire), 1800s– yers (Devon), 1800s– yores (Shropshire), 1800s– yors (chiefly northern), 1800s– yowers (northern); Scottish pre-1700 ȝhoures, pre-1700 ȝhouris, pre-1700 ȝouris, pre-1700 ȝours, pre-1700 ȝowris, pre-1700 ȝurez, pre-1700 yhouris, pre-1700 yhourz, pre-1700 yhowris, pre-1700 youres, pre-1700 youris, pre-1700 yourris, pre-1700 yovris, pre-1700 yowris, pre-1700 yowrs, pre-1700 1700s– yours. N.E.D. (1921) also records a form Middle English ȝurs. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: your pron., English -s. Etymology: < your pron. + genitive ending -s; compare hers pron.¹, ours pron., theirs pron. Compare yourn pron. On the history of use with singular reference see discussion at you pron., adj., and n.In Old English (and in early Middle English in late copies of material of Old English composition) ēowres occurs as the regular masculine and neuter genitive singular of the possessive adjective ēower your adj. (compare e.g. quots. OE², c1175 at your adj. 1a(a)); there is also an isolated attestation in Old English of this form (neuter genitive) used as a noun in sense ‘that which belongs to you’ (compare sense A. 3c):OE Laws of Æðelstan (Corpus Cambr. 201) i. v. 148 Nelle ic, þæt ge me mid unrihte ahwar aht gestrynan; ac ic wille eowres geunnan eow rihtlice [OE Nero ic wille eowres agenes geunnan eow rihtlice; L. sed omnia uestra uobis concedo], on þa gerad þe ge me geunnan mines. Compare also the irregular construction represented by Old English ēowres (the masculine and neuter genitive singular of the possessive adjective) in collocation with an indefinite pronoun (in the genitive case), in which ēowres is apparently functioning as the genitive of the personal pronoun (the expected form is ēower your pron.) and both words are in agreement with each other (quot. c1475 appears to show a similar isolated use in Middle English); see B. Mitchell Old Eng. Syntax (1985) §301. There is unlikely to be any continuity of use between these constructions and yours pron. For examples compare:OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxiii. 243 Gelyfað ge me nu þyses, þæt in næniges eowres muð [L. in nullius uestrum ore] nu todæge ne cymþ hlaf, buton þes cniht si genered ær.lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxx. 305 Gif ge willað þone fruman sceaft geþencan..& siððan eowres ælces acennednesse.c1475 Brome Abraham & Isaac in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 54 I schall mvltyplye ȝowrys botherys sede As thyke as sterrys be in the skye. A. pron. 1. Equivalent to your with a noun supplied from the context. Frequently paired or contrasted with another possessive.See also up yours at up prep.² 3b. Π a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 28 Vich haue speken of owre fowr wittes, & of Godes fowere, hu he þurh hise froures ow, as ofte as ȝe in owres [?c1225 Cleo. ouwer, c1230 Corpus Cambr. ower, a1250 Nero ouwer wittes, c1390 Vernon ouren] felin anj orne. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2798 Leuedi, k[r]istes ore, And youres! a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5061 Knauing of yours haue i nan. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 68 The kynge that is my lorde and yowres. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xli. 274 Our religion is true, and yours starke false. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 95 Let their beds be made as soft as yours . View more context for this quotation 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 15 The practice of these Rules will help qualifie a Life of Action such as yours must be. 1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 25 With Virtue strong as yours had Eve been arm'd. 1777 J. Boswell Let. 29 Nov. in Life Johnson (1791) II. 179 I was, indeed, doubly uneasy;—on my own account and yours. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vii. 144 Such a father as yours. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. li. 84 ‘It shall [be done], sir,’ said Sampson. ‘Then give me your hand,’ retorted Quilp. ‘Sally, girl, yours.’ 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Tie My dog tied yours, so they must run again. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 195 He seems to put his cards on the table and to be saying in the friendliest way: ‘That's my opinion. What's yours?’ 1964 M. Kosloff Dial ‘P’ for Pleasure ix. 129 After all, you take my wife and I take yours—a fair swap. 2010 Your Cat Feb. 59/3 (caption) Kittens can't hold it, so make sure yours isn't caught short without a tray! 2. Predicatively: that which belongs to you.Formerly also occasionally with a postmodifying numerical or quantitative adjective, as yours both, yours two (cf. you pron. 3).See also all yours at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 19. Π c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2800 (MED) Englond auhte forto ben youres. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1852 (MED) Thus am I youres evermo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2068 Drightin graunt þat it be sua, þat al þis werld be yurs tua. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 17 Blissed be ȝe pore, for ȝours is þe kyngdome of god! 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 497 All hale my land sall ȝouris be. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2869 The felissheppe is yourez that yender ye see. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlv. C The goodes of all the lande of Egipte shalbe yours. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 536 If you'll a willing eare incline; What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. i. 39 in Wks. II All this Nether-world Is yours, you command it, and doe sway it. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 162 Moreover remember that boy which is yours both. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 31 Take all that an over-indulgent Monarch has enrich'd me with! these Jewels! these Bills must be yours! a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 159 Take back, what once was yours. 1825 M. Edgeworth Harry & Lucy (1858) 174 You should not meddle with them; they are not yours. 1845 Lady Dufferin Lament Irish Emigrant 33 Yours was the good brave heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 185 If you pay less than £40 a year rent, you will sometimes feel tempted to say to the..school attendance officer, and the sanitary inspector: ‘Is this child mine or yours?’ 1974 L. Thomas Tropic of Ruislip ix. 178 ‘Blimey,’ she said. ‘There's one of the old pennies in here. That's not yours, is it?’ 1982 V. Alcock Sylvia Game xxii. 148 Mallerton will be yours one day, and you need to toughen up, if you're going to be able to hold onto it. 1996 SFX May 96/2 Two different phaser sound effects are yours at the press of a button. 3. a. Those who are yours, esp. your family, kindred, or friends. Chiefly in you and yours. ΘΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > relations and friends kithc1000 thineOE kith and kin1377 lyancec1380 you and yoursa1400 peoplea1425 alliance1548 homefolk1798 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17340 (MED) Als yee said, it sal..On yow and yours bath be sene. c1465 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 70 Allmyty God have you in ys kepyng, and all yowrys. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 212 You & al yours shal be ryche for euer. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1722 Bothe to me & to myne mykull vnright, And to yow & also yours ȝomeryng for euer. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 92 Whose heauie hand Hath bow'd you to the Graue, and begger'd Yours for euer. View more context for this quotation 1635 E. Gorges Let. 12 July in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 247 Thus prayeing god to blese you with yours. 1645 King Charles I in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. ix. 14 Some considerations hinder me from doing all I would towards you and yours. 1706 C. Cibber Perolla & Izadora i. 44 I'm that wretched Maid forlorn, Whose long obedient Hate to you and yours, The forceful Virtues of Perolla have Dissolv'd. 1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World (1773) i. ii. 32 I had looked forward to some happy days, amidst a race of my Harriet's and yours. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 136 Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Jan. 6/2 We have..hung our latch-string out to you and yours. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 113/1 (advt.) It's natural—instinctive—for you to take good care of the home that gives you and yours this steadfast protection. 1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 21 Jan. 10/3 Thanks, plus L and K to you and yours. 1993 T. Murphy Thief of Christmas ii, in Plays: 2 218 As you and yours did for me an' mine! b. of yours: that is (or are) yours; belonging to you (see of prep. 32). Π a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15409 If yee me oght of yurs giue. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1964 (MED) I ȝef yow me for on of yourez. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 344 He was..an old felawe of youres. 1471 E. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 634 Ȝe schuld borow of my brothere Ser John ore of sum othere frend of ȝowers. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiii^v Ane knyght of youris. 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. viii. 9 Lest..thys libertye of yours be an occasyon of falling. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes Ep. Ded. sig. A2 That, that pure sanguine complexion of yours may neuer be famisht with potte-lucke. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 212 She hath that Ring of yours . View more context for this quotation 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 255 By the raking pace of my Mule, quoth Rondibilis, I know not what Answer to make to this Problem of yours. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. Ded. p. iv So near a resemblance of Yours to the Young Prince. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 235 I receive by my orderly officer, two letters of yours upon the same subject. 1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 28 Jan. (1971) 165 The gown..is made by the very best dressmaker in Paris by a pattern body which I got my dear Fan to take from a gown of yours. 1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. 290 Some villanous slander, of course, there is, but it is no business of yours to be straking off to make it worse. 1902 C. J. Pidgin Stephen Holton 260 That was a mighty good idea of yours, Mr. Lethbridge. 1941 D. Thomas Let. 15 July (1987) 492 While looking through a drawer to find something..I came across an old letter of yours to me. 1979 New Scientist 18 Oct. 164/3 Imagine you are lying flat on a table, and a friend of yours comes along with a felt-tip pen. 2001 S. Armitage Little Green Man (2002) xxv. 160 So, how's that son of yours doing? c. That which belongs to you; your property. Also: your affair, your business. ΘΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > that which is one's own > that which is mine, ours, his, hers, or yours oureOE hisOE mineOE thineOE hernc1230 hersa1250 ourna1382 yourna1382 oursa1400 his'nc1425 yours1526 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun] > particular to someone privy councilc1300 peculiar1611 yours1841 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. xii. 14 I seke not youres but you. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconf. 1 409 Be it your's to help him. 1919 W. W. Folwell Econ. Addr. 87 Mine is mine because yours is yours and all is ours. The right of each is the guaranty of all. 2006 B. Harshav & B. Harshav tr. I. Y. Shvarts in Sing, Stranger 644 Mine is mine and yours is yours. 2009 T.-S. L. Whittaker Millionaire Wives Club 42 This between me and my moms, not you, so mind yours. d. In (esp. commercial) correspondence: your letter, the letter from you. ΘΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > last, next, or your letter yours1536 last1545 next1595 the favour of your letter1706 1536 E. Harvel in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. cxviii. 77 I have yours of the last of April. 1614 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 275 To yours of the last of Februarie I say I will not forgett to signify your mynd to Thomas Heathe att the first commoditie. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. iii. 5 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) I had yours of the last week. 1688 J. Nightingale Let. 2 Apr. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (2001) ii. 236 Yours of this date have received. The boy brought it to me about three a clock. 1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 308 I am favoured with yours of the 10th August. 1755 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) xi. 67 Pardon an observation on style: ‘I received yours’ is vulgar and mercantile; ‘your letter’ is the way of writing. 1775 R. Challoner in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxviii. 116 Yours with the enclosed draught for 50-ll. came safe to hand. 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 3 May (1978) VIII. 108 Though I wrote to you on the 28th ultimo, I must acknowledge yours of this day. 1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 40 The house mentioned in yours of the 3rd inst. is daily expected to stop payment. 1921 E. B. White Let. 6 Dec. (2006) ii. 27 Dear Mrs. Adams: In reply to yours of September 30th. 1955 R. Alexander Grand Prize 15 Dear Sirs: Yours of August 16th received and noted. We wish to inform you your requests have been met in every detail. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 13 I have yours of the 26th ult. and am much oblig'd for your kind opinion. e. colloquial and British regional (originally East Anglian). Your home, your house, ‘your place’. Cf. mine pron. 3d. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Mine I shall go to-morrow to yours. a1905 M. E. Rope in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 590/2 [Suffolk] I was going to yours. 1917 Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. 3 23 There is a peculiarity of speech by which an Essex man may often be detected—..the use of the word ‘his’ or ‘mine’ instead of ‘his house’, or ‘my house’. ‘Are you going to his to-night? No, he is coming to mine, unless we both come round to yours.’ 1978 P. Fitzgerald Bookshop iii. 37 ‘Mr Raven got the key from the plumber,’ said one of the children... ‘He told us to come over to yours. What do you want doing?’ 1991 A. A. Aidoo Changes vi. 44 Do you remember when you were still up north, and I stopped at yours for the weekend on my way back from Ouga? 2008 G. Coombs George moves On 24 ‘You all set for that?’ ‘Yeah, sure am, what time shall I come round yours later?’ f. colloquial. what's yours?: what would you like to drink (or eat)? Cf. what's your poison? at poison n. 4, mine pron. 3e. ΚΠ 1873 Old & New July 78 What's yours, gentlemen? 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 115/1 ‘What's yours, Fred?’ he asked. ‘Virginia ham and scrambled eggs,’ I replied. 1942 M. Wolff Night Shift xiii. 298 He dropped a little square paper napkin in front of Petey on the shining bar top. ‘What'll yours be?’ 1982 P. Lovesey False Inspector Dew v. 177 What's yours, Inspector? 1997 G. Cochrane Blood xviii. 65 I'll get us some drinks. What's yours? 4. Used formulaically at the end of a letter; also such a formula used humorously to refer to oneself (chiefly in yours truly at truly adv. and n. Phrases 2). Cf. your adj. 4.Often qualified by an adverb or adverbial phrase, as yours etc., ever, faithfully, respectfully, sincerely, truly, etc.: see the final element. ΚΠ ?1430 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 14 Yowres, William Paston. 1438–9 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 109 Be ȝo^rs in all thyng David Home of Wederburn. 1516 Ld. Dacre in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 133 At Kirkoswald the xxiij. daye of Auguste Yowrs with hyes serves Thomas Dacre. 1582 L. Kirby Let. 10 Jan. in W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. B5^v Yours to death and after death. Luke kirbie. 1596 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1952) XII. 413 Youris lefullie, ye watt quhoe. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) To Rdr. 350 Yours in aught erred to be conformed, W. Warner. c1680 Let. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 75 Yours in the Lord, Subscribed, J. B. 1682 J. W. Let. from New-Eng. 9 end Sir, I shall trouble you no more at present, onely that I am Yours, J. W. 1718 Illustrious Mod. 19 I depend on your mighty Talent,..and on that Score, remain, Most Lovingly Yours. 1779 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 363 On Tuesday, Oct^r 5^th Mr., Mrs., Miss Thrale, and ‘yours, ma'am, yours’, set out on their Expedition. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne Ded. I am, most truly and faithfully your's, The Author. 1833 C. Dickens Let. ?Oct. (1965) I. 31 Pray give my love to Letitia; ‘accept the same from yours truly’ as schoolboys say. 1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xxvii It's ill..with yours obediently. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. xx. 256 And they were his faithfully, etc. ‘Hang their “yours faithfully”,’ banged out Ernest. 1916 Times 11 Feb. 7/6 Enclosing my card, I am yours faithfully, very-much-pro-Allied Hollander. 1988 Scribes Jrnl. Legal Writing 2 87 I think the complimentary close should be ‘Sincerely yours’, rather than just ‘Sincerely’. 2005 H. Mazer Heroes don't Run (2007) xviii. 80 Please be careful and stay safe! Yours, Helen. B. adj. As the first of two or more possessives modifying a following noun: = your adj. 1a. Π c1534 T. Cranmer Let. in Remains (1833) I. 93 So that by yours and their agreement I may obtain the next lease. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 259 Yours, and my discharge. View more context for this quotation 1687 J. Bloome Let. 5 Oct. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr. (2001) II. 304 I shall as circumspectly as possible observe yours and Mr Whitings commands. 1710 J. Addison Let. to Swift 11 Apr. I suppose you know, that I obeyed your's, and the Bishop of Clogher's commands. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly 66 This adaptation of contending parts, as it has not been in our's, so it can never be in your's, or in any country, the effect [etc.]. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Let. 24 Jan. (1981) I. 271 I have done yours and the young lady's commands. 1886 C. Gibbon Princess of Jutedom II. xi. 142 Why he should want to..blacken him in yours and in everybody else's thoughts? 1925 N. Sacco Let. 18 June in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti Lett. (1997) i. i. 28 With hope that it will be the last of yours and mine birthdays that we spend in this terrible and iniquitous bastile! 2010 D. Salomon Elem. Computer Security vi. 167 A friend may send you a free and beautiful screen saver that..inflicts much damage to both yours and your friend's computers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < pron.adj.a1250
随便看	rung up rung-cart rung-head rung-wheel rungcart runge runged rungetter rungetting runge–kutta runghead runging runging adze rungless rungs rungu rungwheel runholder runholding runian runic runic calendar runic-like runically runiccer