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friendship|ˈfrɛndʃɪp|
Forms: 1–3 fréondscipe, (1 -scype, 3 freond-, freontschipe, freonscipe), 2–3 frendshipe, 3–4 frenscip, -scep, freinschip, 3–5 frendscip, -schip, frenschip(e, (4 frendischipe, frencipp, -s(c)hepe, 5 -chepe), 4–5 frendeship, (freendshippe), frenship(pe, -shyp, 4–6 frendship(pe, (4 frendshepe, 6 -shype, 4 Sc. freyndschip, 6 Sc. freindship, 6– friendship.
[OE. fréondscipe: see friend n. and -ship.]
1. The state or relation of being a friend; association of persons as friends.
Beowulf 2069 Þy ic Heaðobeardna hyldo ne telᵹe..freondscipe fæstne. c1175Lamb. Hom. 33 Alre erest þu most habben mine freonscipe. a1225Ancr. R. 98 Uor no freondschipe nis so vuel ase is fals freondschipe. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 35 Þat bi nom þe myn frenschipe for þi soþnesse al clene. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. iii. (1495) 553 It is sayd that alabastre..gendryth and kepyth frendshypp. c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 76 He fest me to his frenschippe, so frendly he fared. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 36 Wilde menne, which could by no gentilnes be allured to frendshippe. 1612Bacon Ess., Friendship (Arb.) 160 Without friendship, society is but meeting. 1733Swift Life & Char. Dean S—t 43 True friendship in two breasts requires The same aversions, and desires. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost v. 125 The love of friendship is..the most perfect form of love.
b. A friendly relation or intimacy.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 210 Freondscipas niwe. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 7 Knawing weill, na thing micht bring the pepill sonar under ane freindschip and band than sic doingis. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 85 The learned and choice Friendships that you enjoy. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. vii. 182 To endeavour a Friendship with those Indians; a thing our Privateers had long coveted. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 40 And softly, thro' a vinous mist, My college friendships glimmer. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 361 His friendship with two of the chief actors may have biassed his judgment.
†c. collect. Friends. Obs.
c1400Beryn 3526 And lokid..with a rewful cher..on othir frendshipp and neyȝbours he had ther. a1440Sir Degrev. 1274 The duke rekyvered aȝyne, Hys frenchepys were fayn. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. c. 80 Cadwalyn in playne batayll slowe Edwyn and al his frendshippes.
2. Friendly feeling or disposition felt or shown by one person for or towards another; friendliness. † in friendship: on friendly terms.
a1300Cursor M. 14359 Mikel frenscip has þou him kidd. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 84 For that at the King off Ingland Held swylk freyndschip and cumpany To thar King. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) ii. 7 Þat was giffen me for grete frenschepe. 1596Spenser State Irel. (Globe) 661 Such rawe captaynes as are usuallye sent out of England, being therto preferred onely by frendship, and not chosen by sufficiencye. 1644South Serm. (1737) II. ii. 45 We have here..an account of Christ's friendship to his disciples. 1723–4in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 277, I could never impute it to want of friendship in one, whose goodness to me has always been abundantly more than I could deserve. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 38 To renew the assurance of his friendship, which was not diminished by the sorrowful event.
†3. A friendly act; a favour; friendly aid. Obs.
1535Coverdale Prov. xviii. 24 A frende that delyteth in loue, doth a man more frendshipe, and sticketh faster vnto him then a brother. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 62 Hard by heere is a Houell, Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the Tempest. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb ii. i, You have done to me friendships infinite, and often.
†4. ‘Conformity, affinity, correspondence, aptness to unite’ (J.). Cf. friendly 6. Obs. rare—1.
1695Dryden tr. Dufresnoy's Art Paint. Observ. 175 This rule obliges us to know those Colours which have a Friendship with each other, and those which are incompatible.
▸ friendship bracelet n. orig. U.S. a bracelet, usually of bright, multicoloured woven wool, cotton, or other yarn, freq. home-made, and exchanged (esp. by young people) as a token of friendship.
1937N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 44/1 (advt.) Lost... *Friendship Bracelet, platinum, with seven charms; reward. 1995E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 170 When I left, we hugged again, and he gave me a gift, a bit of sweetgrass that he had woven into a friendship bracelet. 2002Yorkshire Evening Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. The dead man was wearing..a blue, red and green woven friendship bracelet on his wrist. |