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sibness In later use only Sc.|ˈsɪbnɪs|
Also 3, 7 sibnesse, 6–7 Sc. -nes; 3, 5 sybnesse, 4 subnes.
[f. sib a. + -ness. Cf. Fris. sibbens.]
1. Relationship, kinship.
a1240Wohunge in O.E. Hom. I. 275 Nu, mi swete ihesu, leaued haue i for þi luue flesches sibnesse. c1275On Serving Christ 76 in O.E. Misc. 92 Þureh þe sybnesse of seynt iohan..Louerd haue mercy of vs euervychon. c1300Harrow. Hell 208 For þi godnese art þou min, More for þi godnesse Þen for þine sibnesse. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. x. (Bodl. MS.), If mercurius is coniuncte þereto..he disposeþ a man..to writing and is the hous of kynrede & nyȝe subnes. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 58 For sic sibnes and also sic incest For till abhor, him thocht that that wes best. a1598Rollock Serm. Wks. 1849 I. 386 Thou will count thy sibnes with this man and that man. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 29 Gif she be separate fra him, for parentage, and sibnes of blude. 1872Michie Deeside Tales (1908) 9 People were wont to say of any inextricable problem, ‘ye might as soon unravel the sibness o' the Gordons o' Girnock’. c1892Rankin in Storey Ch. of Scotl. II. 421 The relation of godfather and godmother which had nothing to do with bodily sibness at all.
b. transf. or fig.
a1658Durham Comm. Revelation xi. (1680) 433 We would observe the sibnesse and identity of this trumpet with the seven viols. 1692A. Pitcairn Assembly iv. iii. 53 Pastoral Relations and Scriptural Sibnesses. 1744E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 III. 216 The wondrous sibness between Christ and His Church.
†2. collect. Kinsfolk, relatives. Obs.—1
a1290Pains of Hell (MS. Digby 86) 109 Þe wreieþ his sibnesse oþer his steleþ Abouen his heien þe flod heleþ. |