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son-in-law|ˈsʌnɪnlɔː|
[son n.1 and law n.1 3 c.]
1. A daughter's husband. Also † son in the law, son by law. (Cf. son-law.)
α13..Cursor M. 7650 (Gött.), Dauid his sone-in-law for to sla. 1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 219 Valter, Steward of Scotland, That..sone-in-law wes to the king. c1425Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 672 Hic gener, sone-in-law. 1530Palsgr. 272/2 Sonne in lawe, gendre. 1573Will T. Daye (Somerset Ho.), My son in lawe Robert Dobledaie. 1600Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 144 The brides father..sendes great store of daintie dishes vnto his sonne in law. 1639Bury Wills (Camden) 180, I give unto my sonne-in-law..my second best gown. 1700Evelyn Diary 13 Feb., She left my son-in-law..the mansion house of Adscomb. 1743Francis tr. Horace, Odes ii. iv. 16 Her Parents..Shall not their Son-in-law disgrace. 1811Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. v. 147 How should you like him for a son-in-law? 1813Southey Nelson I. 87 Josiah, his son-in-law, went with him.
β1545Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 12 Johne Buchquhannane son in the law to the said Lord Johne Levingstoun. [1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 54 Soon to king Priamus by law.]
†2. ? A reputed son. Obs.
1591Lodge Catharos B 4 b, How doth the father of your sonne in law?
†3. A stepson. Obs.
1618Bolton Florus iv. xii. (1636) 318 Cæsar throughly quietted all the nations of that tract..by his sonne in law whose mother hee had married, Claudius Drusus. 1731Fielding Mod. Husb. ii. iii, I hope you will pardon an intercession, my dear, for a son-in-law, which I should not be guilty for a son of my own. 1738tr. Guazzo's Art Convers. 21 The step-mother..can't discern the good qualities of her son-in-law.
Hence son-in-lawship.
1886Hardy Woodlanders (1887) II. ix. 163 It immersed him so deeply in son-in-lawship to Melbury. |