单词 | commonership |
释义 | commonershipn. The position or status of being a commoner (in various senses of commoner n.). Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > position or quality of plebeiance1621 commonership1648 peopleship1650 plebeity1663 plebeianism1723 roture1738 plebeianness1840 1648 A. C. Vindic. Cromwell & Ireton 6 This fellow and such as he, would faine be such free Commoners, as..to say or doe freely what they will and can against any man without countroule for it, and till then will never thinke themselves in the full state of free-commoner-ship. 1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 115. 1683 We..desire all men of Estate to aspire no higher then a fellow Commoner ship in the Nation. 1845 H. D. Miles Dick Turpin i. 4 Two years of not very creditable commonership at Oxford. 1860 Trip to Bath iii. 32 Methinks the nakedness of commonership peeps through the superficial coating of nobility. 1923 Graphic 7 Apr. 464/1 The war..made princes with foreign rank..into peers of the realm, that in turn involving a return ultimately to commonership. 2011 Irish Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. 13 Rising above the sneers at her commoner-ship and dodgy relatives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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