daughter-in-lawn.
/ˈdɔːt(ə)rɪnlɔː/, U.S. /ˈdɔdərᵻnˌlɔ/, /ˈdɑdərᵻnˌlɑ/ 1. The wife of a person's son.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > daughter-in-law
daughter-in-lawa1382
good-daughter1494
daughter-law1521
law-daughter1582
bahu1959
makoti1963
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Ruth i. 22 Þanne cam Noemy wiþ Ruth Moabite hir dowȝtyr in lawe [L. nuru].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 129 Dostyr in lawe, nurus.
1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities iii. f. 41 If any man shall slepe with his doughter in law, his sonnes wyfe, let hym dye.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. x. 35 The daughter in law against her mother in law. View more context for this quotation
1742 T. Sympson Let. 30 Aug. in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 84 Be pleased Sir, to let a Servant deliver the inclosed to my Daughter in Law in Bell Yard.
1805 Lancaster Gaz. 9 Feb. 3/3 He said the woman was his daughter-in-law; he had no doubt of it whatever, though he had never seen her and his son together.
1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon III. ii. xxxii. 250 A mother is difficult to please in the matter of daughters-in-law.
1929 C. A. F. Rhys Davids Stories of Buddha 185 The daughter-in-law is suitable for my son.
1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 Sept. 7/6 She..baby-sits for her daughter-in-law.
2007 Independent 6 Oct. 55/2 The tabloids reported how Prince Philip had made no secret of his feelings about his former daughter-in-law's liaison with Fayed Jnr.
2. = stepdaughter n. Now archaic and historical. N.E.D. (1894) remarks: ‘Now considered incorrect.’
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > stepdaughter
stepdaughtera850
daughter-in-law1609
1609 T. Pickering tr. W. Perkins Christian Oeconomie v. 42 The step-daughter, or daughter in law, that is, the daughter of a man by another wife, or of a woman by another husband [L. priuigna].
1701 Law-Lat. Dict. in F. O. Law-French Dict. A daughter-in-law (or daughter by a former bed), Privigna.
1762 S. Johnson Let. 20 July (1992) I. 206 My daughter-in-law..has lost the beauty and gaiety of youth.
1801 Bury & Norwich Post 1 Apr. 1/2 The principal evidence against him was his daughter-in-law, a girl ten years of age, who he attempted to drown.
1892 E. E. Salisbury & E. M. Salisbury Family Hist. & Geneal. I. ii. 443 If the daughter of William Digby, she was also the daughter of Lady Montague, and so daughter-in-law, or step-daughter, of her second husband Sir Edward Montague.
1999 C. B. Herrup House in Gross Disorder (2001) ii. 41 Skipwith and Anktill had become the intimates of, respectively, his adolescent daughter-in-law/stepdaughter and his eldest daughter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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