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ˈgodˌmother
[Cf. godfather.]
A female sponsor considered in relation to her god-child.
c1000Martyrol. in Cockayne Shrine 140 Heo slep æt þære godmodor huse. c1175[see godfather]. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1693 Also shal þe womman wonde To take here godmodrys husbonde. 1340[see god-daughter]. c1420Chron. Vilod. st. 553 Hurre godfather and hurre godmores. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 435 They founde yt Mawde..was godmother vnto y⊇ Kyng Charlys hir husbonde. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 210 Christened and Baptised, the Godfathers beyng the Abbot and Pryor of Westmynster, and the godmother the lady Scrope. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 105 The arch-bishop of St. Andrew's & earl of Arran being his godfathers, & the old queen, the king's mother, his god⁓mother. 1710–11Swift Lett. (1767) III. 87 A girl..and was poor Stella forced to stand for godmother? 1849Lytton Caxtons 12 When the question of godmother and godfather was fairly put to him, he [etc.]. a1878Princess Alice in Mem. (1884) 78 Louis's mother is to be god-mother.
b. A female ‘sponsor’ of a bell.
1844Dickens Chimes i, They had had their Godfathers and Godmothers, these Bells.
Hence ˈgodmother v., to provide with a godmother. Also ˈgodˌmotherhood, ˈgodˌmothership, the office of a godmother.
1677W. Hughes Man of Sin. ii. x. 175 Urbanus holds it lawfull that Sons and Daughters of Godfathers and Godmothers born before or after such their Godfather or Godmothership, should marry. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xlviii. 376 My Lord Davers, and the Earl of C―, shall be godfathers; and it must be doubly godmothered too. 1848Dickens Dombey v, Elevated thus to the godmothership of little Paul..Miss Tox was [etc.]. 1863Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 190 But the Godmotherhood?..I don't belong to the English Church. |