单词 | god-daughter |
释义 | god-daughtern. A female godchild. Chiefly with possessive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > god-daughter god-daughterOE filiole15.. society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > spiritual relation of participants > godchild > god-daughter god-daughterOE OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxiii. 308 He bæd þa ylcan his goddohter, þæt heo mid him þa niht gewunode, & þa on þære ylcan niht..he forspilde hie þurh forligre. OE Will of Wulfric (Sawyer 1536) in P. H. Sawyer Charters of Burton Abbey (1979) 55 Ic geann minre goddehter..þæt land æt Strættune. c1250 in Mod. Lang. Notes (1934) 49 237 (MED) Confiliolitas, wlgo godsone and goddouter. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 48 Þe zeuende [sin of lechery] is of man to his godmoder oþer to his goddoȝter. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28480 (MED) Mi godd doghter i gafe ne grith. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 201 Goddowter, filiola. 1542 W. Chambarlayn Will in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 334 I be qveythe to Iarge tayleferes dovtar my kynsevomane & go dovtar att the day of har marage xs. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 6 How doth..your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen? View more context for this quotation 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 53 To doe a favour to the Queene, that was his God-daughter. a1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 56 My deer sister..came to see me in my thacht house with my deer neec and god-daughter Mrs Grace Norton. 1776 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 203 Mrs. Anne Foley called on me yesterday with my little god-daughter. 1851 A. Strickland Queens Scot. I. 4 The Archbishop of Canterbury had presented his goddaughter with a beautiful gold aspersoir. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. viii. 251 ‘Sophia is your god-daughter’, she says abruptly. 1976 J. Rhys Sleep it off Lady 19 Old Myra was questioned. She said that she had not seen her god-daughter and had not heard from her ‘since long time’. 2007 Independent 15 Nov. (Extra section) 9/4 My goddaughter was adopted from grim circumstances and has now lucked out with the most loving parents you can imagine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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