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单词 kinsman
释义

kinsmann.

Brit. /ˈkɪnzmən/, U.S. /ˈkɪnzmən/
Forms: Middle English cunnes-, kun(n)es- (Middle English kenes-, Middle English kennes-, -ys-), Middle English kinnes(s-, Middle English–1500s kynnes-, Middle English kines-, Middle English–1600s kinse-, Middle English–1500s kyns(e-, 1500s– kinsman.
Etymology: Early Middle English < cunnes , kinnes , genitive of kin n.1 + man n.1
A man of one's own kin; a relative by blood (or, loosely, by marriage). (Now chiefly literary.)
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun]
gadlingeOE
sibmanOE
friendOE
sibOE
siblingOE
kinsmanc1175
friendmana1200
kinc1200
cousinc1300
allyc1380
kindreda1450
parent?c1450
alliancec1475
lyance1502
relation1502
relate1651
relative1657
relator1665
family member1673
correlative1697
relater1702
rellie1921
rello1982
c1052 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C.) anno 1052 Hit wæs heom mæst eallon lað þat hig sceoldon f[e]ohtan wið heora agenes cynnes mannum.]
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7613 Cristess kinness menn. Þær brohhtenn crist to kirrke.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 75 Ne ðine breðren..ne ðine kenesmen, ne ðine neihibures.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 456/3 His freond and is cunnes-men þe gretteste maystres were.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6434 Ietro..was moyses kynnes-man [Gött. kines man].
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 106 My kennysmen and ancestres yn þe self lawe dwellyd.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 67 That my kinnesmen & frendes be assembled.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2v No..kynseman for kynseman..coulde do more.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 273 Hali, Mahomets nearest kinsman and sonne in lawe.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 31 Nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 605 It was no pleasant task to accuse the Queen's kinsman in the Queen's presence.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 65 He is your mother's kinsman.
figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 81 Moodie and dull melancholly, Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse dispaire. View more context for this quotation1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 154 Dew..being a neare kinsman to rain.

Derivatives

ˈkinsmanly adj. appropriate to or characteristic of a kinsman.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [adjective]
kinsmanly1838
1838 J. Martin Rem. & Serm. vii. 168 True kinsmanly affection to our brethren in Christ.
1885 Spectator 31 Jan. 154/2 The claims of New England upon the kinsmanly interest and affection of all travellers from the mother-country.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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