单词 | clannish |
释义 | clannishadj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a clan; having the sympathies, prejudices, etc. of a clan; attached to one's own clan. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [adjective] gentilitial1602 gentilitious1646 clannish1791 gentile1800 septal1842 1791 J. Wilkes in J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 85 The clannish slavery of the Highlands. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. 461 Clannish watch-words were abolished. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 73 The clannish spirit of provincial literature. 1849 W. Irving Crayon Misc. 223 It was not always safe to have even the game of foot-ball between villages, the old clannish spirit was too apt to break out. 1861 W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon iii. § 2 That clannish pride which she always felt for her mother's kin. Derivatives ˈclannishly adv. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [adverb] clannishly1881 1881 D. Masson Carlyle in Macmillan's Mag. 45 72 A few companions clannishly selected..from among the Dumfriesshire or Galloway lads. ˈclannishness n. attachment to one's own clan. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > attachment to clan clannishness1861 1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 428 Mine host is a Dorsetshire man; and with a pardonable clannishness, has imported a little colony from his county. 1873 Spectator 23 Aug. 1060/1 The clannishness fostered by a separate tongue, and the gratification of the lonely pride all such races feel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1791 |
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