单词 | home-tied |
释义 | > as lemmashome-tied d. With past participles, forming adjectives with the sense ‘by, with, or to one's home’, as home-begotten, home-rooted, home-tied, etc. ΚΠ 1596 G. Markham Poem of Poems sig. B Shee of her home-begotten woes bemoanes the wronged case. 1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ii5 Home-begotten hate. 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance 104 Calm, wedded affection, that home-rooted plant. 1853 T. N. Talfourd Castilian iv. iii We'll ensure one hour of home-fraught comfort. 1897 Daily News 30 Mar. 8/2 Work amongst the home-tied and crippled children of London. 1902 Harper's Mag. Nov. 847/2 And the autumn passed—a smiling, radiant season that was balm to Harriet's home-rooted soul. 1982 M. P. Ryan Empire of Mother (1985) ii. 64 The problem of sending home-sheltered young men and women into an increasingly complex society. 1987 Guardian 11 May 23/7 Mobility can mean the difference between the freedom of an active social life and a lonely hometied existence. 1996 E. D. Hirsch Schools we Need iv. 91 The home-provided background knowledge of advantaged students helps make them quicker and more academically advanced than their less-advantaged classmates. < as lemmas |
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