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weaned, ppl. a.|wiːnd|
[f. wean v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb, lit. and fig.
c1440Promp. Parv. 522/1 Wenyd, as chylder fro sokynge, ablactatus. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxxi. 2 My soule is euen as a weened childe. 1620Brinsley Virg. Ecl. iii. (1633) 35 The wained kids. 1670T. Brooks London's Lament. 215 With what a weaned heart and cold affections do men look upon all the pomp, state, bravery and glory of the world, when [etc.]. 1836C. Bradley Pract. Serm. 360 A weaned heart is absolutely needful for you. 1837Youatt Sheep xv. 517 Many farmers are very fanciful as to the provision for the weaned lambs.
Hence ˈweanedness, spiritual detachment.
a1617Bayne Eph. (1643) 278 Adorning this their age in Christ, with graces correspondent, viz. experience, wisdome, weanednesse, all kinde of mortification. 1689Manton Serm. iii. i. Life of Faith 28 The Spiritual life..begets a holy weanedness in us. 1702C. Mather Magn. Christi i. iii. 13/2 An Example of..Weanedness from the things of this World. 1858J. S. C. Abbott Heroines Fr. Revol. 215 Her weanedness from the world. 1885Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxi. 2 Such weanedness from self springs from the gentle humility declared in the former verse. |