单词 | her goddess-ship |
释义 | > as lemmasher (your, etc.) goddess-ship 1. With possessive adjective. As a (mock) title of respect or (humorous) form of address for a woman or (Mythology) a goddess, as her (your, etc.) goddess-ship. Now rare. ΚΠ 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. v. 58 To please her goddesse-shippe [L. ut talibus dea sacris propitiaretur]. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 122 Zeal for your Goddess ships Honour. 1767 P. Gibbes Woman of Fashion I. xvii. 143 What a Chace has her Goddessship led me! 1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 323 And, lo, how pleased..Her Goddess-ship approves the air. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 38 179 Her Goddess-ship's qualities and attributes. 1880 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 8 Nov. Being an every-day piece of humanity, her goddess-ship scorns me. 1913 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 356/2 Imagine the sums which have been paid for..pamphlets about her goddessship. < as lemmas |
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