单词 | childship |
释义 | childshipn. 1. The state or condition of being a child; the relationship of child to parent; the attainment of this status, filiation, adoption (cf. childhood n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] childerheadc1400 childhoodc1450 childship1535 filiality1615 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rom. viii. 23 We..grone within in oure selues for the Childshippe. ?1630 T. Adams Wks. 1101 Gods actuall choyce, and our potentiall childship. 1656 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum (new ed.) xl. 274 The inherited adoption or childship. 1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme Def. against Rickter in Remainder Bks. 19 It attaineth not the divine Childship, or Filiation. 1786 S. Crisp Captive Sinners set Free 33 Who shall deliver me from this body of death, and childship of satan? 1883 B. F. Westcott Epist. of St. John 17 Love is the sign of divine childship. 1909 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 337/2 He showed the pedigree of a family for five generations, four of which presented a marked inheritance of congenital cataract. Seventeen childships were traced, comprising 63 persons. 1988 16th Cent. Jrnl. 19 263 The Gloucester Boy Bishop's Sermon, with its presentation of childship as a cluster of moral virtues radiating from the notion of innocence. 2007 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 Sept. 1 But hopefully, each day, I'm one day closer to resting in my ‘childship’ and simply being his [sc. God's]. 2. second childship: see second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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