lemann.

Brit.

/ˈlɛmən/,

/ˈliːmən/, U.S.

/ˈlɛmən/

Forms: Middle English lefemon, leofemon, leovemon, levemon, Middle English–1600s lemman, lemmon, Middle English lefman (plural -men), Middle English lemmone, Middle English–1700s lemmane, Middle English lemanne, lemone, lemmande, limman, Middle English–1500s lemane, Middle English–1600s lemon, 1500s leymon, lemonde, lefe man (plural -men), Scottish lamen, 1600s leyman, leiman, leaman, lemain, Middle English– leman.

Etymology: Early Middle English leofmon , < leof lief adj. and adv., dear + man n.¹

archaic.

a. A person beloved by one of the opposite sex; a lover or sweetheart; †occasionally a husband or wife.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart

copenerc897

lovec1225

lemanc1275

sweetinga1300

druery13..

doceamurc1320

paramoura1375

honeybirdc1390

honey-sweetc1440

dowsec1450

heart-rootc1460

prim1509

joa1529

sweetheart1576

love-mate1582

belamour1590

copemate1593

frister1639

sprunny1739

Liebling1868

Liebchen1876

angel pie1878

loved one1879

cariad1899

square piece1925

sheikha1926

sweetie-pie1928

oppo1932

poopsie1937

mi'jita1970

squeeze1980

boo1988

bae2006

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner

ferec975

matchOE

makec1175

spousea1200

lemanc1275

fellowc1350

likea1393

wed-ferea1400

partyc1443

espouse?c1450

bedfellow1490

yokefellow?1542

espousal1543

spouse1548

mate1549

marrow1554

paragon1557

yokemate1567

partner1577

better halfa1586

twin1592

moiety1611

copemate1631

consort1634

half-marrow1637

matrimonya1640

helpmeet1661

other half1667

helpmate1715

spousie1735

life companion1763

worse half1783

life partner1809

domestic partner1815

ball and chain1921

lover1969

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9287 To Tintaieol he sende his leofmon [c1300 Otho wif] þa wes hende.

a1300 Floriz & Bl. 53 Þo floriz iherde his lemman nempne.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 782 Ðo sente he after abram And bi-tagte he him is leman.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4345 ‘Ioseph,’ sco said, ‘to þe lemman, Hendes[t] of all i mak mi man.’

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 320 Now deere lemman quod she go farewel.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxxviii. 166 Maydens of englond sare may ye morne for tyȝt haue ye lost your lemmans at bannokesborne.

c1480 (a1400) St. Alexis 494 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 455 My blyse, my beld, my lef-man dere.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 198 Ane sang, The schip salis ouer the salt fame, Wil bring thir merchandis and my lemane hame.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 106 And ilk ȝoung man in courtlie caroling With his lamen thairfoir to dance and sing.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk7 He..offred kingdoms vnto her in vew, To be his Leman and his Lady trew.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 24 I sent thee sixe pence for thy Lemon, hadst it?

1725 Song, ‘The Cock-laird’ i Thou'-se be my ain lemmane Jo, Jennie, quo' he.

1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 291 The tender parley which these lemans held.

†b. Often used, in religious or devotional language, of Christ, the Virgin, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > Mary > [noun]

ladyOE

queenOE

MaryOE

St MaryOE

starOE

Our LadylOE

lemana1225

maidena1225

maid Marya1225

heaven queenc1225

mothera1275

maiden Maryc1300

Star of the Seac1300

advocatrixc1390

mother-maidc1390

flower, gem, etc., of virginitya1393

the Virgina1393

mediatricea1400

paramoura1400

salver14..

advocatrice?a1430

Mother of God?a1430

way of indulgence?a1430

advocatessc1450

mother-maidenc1450

rose of Jerichoa1456

mediatrixc1475

viergec1475

addresseressa1492

fleur-de-lis?a1513

rosine?a1513

salvatrice?a1513

saviouress1563

mediatressa1602

advocatress1616

Christotokos1625

Deipara1664

V.M.1670

Madonnaa1684

the Virgin Mother1720

Panagia1776

Mater Dolorosa1800

B.V.M.1838

dispensatrixa1864

Theotokos1874

dispensatress1896

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lover or bridegroom

bridegroomeOE

lemana1225

a1225 Juliana 17 Mi luue..towart te liuiende godd mi leofsume leofmon.

c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Godes spuse, Jeshu cristes brude, þe lauerdes leofmon.

a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 199 Iesu, mi lemman.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20517 Cums wit me to mi lemman! Mi moder es scho, hir sun i am.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10664 To godd þan haue i giuen me..O þair husband mai i haf nan, Of him haf i made mi leman.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 805 In Iherusalem was my lemman slayn.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 385 Mercy, Iesu, rew thi leman; Mans saull thou boght full soure!

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. x. 94 Hayls that madyn, my lemman, As heyndly as thou can.

2. In bad sense (cf. paramour n. 3): One who is loved unlawfully; an unlawful lover or mistress. In later archaistic use chiefly applied to the female sex.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress

chevesea700

wifeOE

bed-sister1297

concubine1297

leman1297

file1303

speciala1400

womanc1400

chamberer?a1425

mistress?a1439

cousin1470

doxy?1515

doll1560

pinnacea1568

nobsya1575

lier-by1583

sweetheart1589

she-friend1600

miss1606

underput1607

concupy1609

lig-by1610

factoress1611

leveret1617

night-piece1621

belly-piece1632

dolly1648

lie-bya1656

madamc1660

small girl1671

natural1674

convenient1676

lady of the lake1678

pure1688

tackle1688

sultana1703

kind girl1712

bosom-slave1728

pop1785

chère amie1792

fancy-woman1819

hetaera1820

fancy-piece1821

poplolly1821

secondary wife1847

other woman1855

fancy-girl1892

querida1902

wifelet1983

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > illicit male lover

leman1297

concubinec1430

lover1611

fancy man1811

other man1886

other guy1953

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7069 He..huld ire as is lefmon, as wo seiþ in hordum.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10206 Alle clerkene lefmen in prisoun the king brouȝte.

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 3168 Þeos Damus..hadde a lemman hende [c1275 Calig. ane chiuese].

c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 100 His wyf anon hath for hir lemman sent Hir lemman? certes this is a knauyssh speche.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 188 And prestes hue menteyneþ To holde lemmanes and lotebyes al here lif-dayes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8887 Quenes had he hundrides seuen þre hundride lemmons [Vesp. concubins].

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 10 On a derke night, as she yede towardes her lemman to foly.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 693 With my gud wyll I wyll no lemman be To no man born.

1515 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 343 We present Wyllyam Perkynsun and hys leymon for bawdre.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 28 b They founde greater gaines by priestes lemmans then they were like to haue by priestes wives.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iv. i. 90 He [Seianus] putteth away Apicata his wife..least his lemmon should haue her in iealousie.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 237 It is a bravery much used to their Wives and Lemons.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 22 It may be his wife ith' mean time had got her self another Lemon and therefore she acknowledged not her husband.

1794 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. 187 And Rochester's address to lemans loose.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. ix. 7 Yea! none did love him—not his lemans dear.

1833 H. Coleridge Poems I. 50 Hope Love's leman is, Despair his wife.

1871 W. H. Dixon Tower IV. v. 45 A lover whom his lemans dupe and cheat.

Derivatives

ˈlemanless adj. without a leman.

ΚΠ

a1755 Edom of Gordon xxviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 434 And mony were the fair ladys Lay lemanles at heme.

a1830 Lady Margery xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 119/2 I'll make many lady lemanless.

ˈlemanry n. (in Scottishlamenry, lamenrie) illicit love.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy

lemanry1483

intrigo1648

blanket-lovea1657

intrigue1668

affair1700

connection1791

liaison1816

entanglement1863

mpango wa kando2009

1483 Cath. Angl. 213 A Lemanry, concubitus, concubinatus.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44 Gif siclik lufe cummis of ȝour Lamenrie.

1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 39 He beddit nocht richt oft nor lay hir by, Bot throw lichtnes did lig in Lamenry.

a1828 Twa Knights iv, in F. J. Child Ballads III. 25 Lay never your love on lemanry.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leman
释义	lemann. Brit. /ˈlɛmən/, /ˈliːmən/, U.S. /ˈlɛmən/ Forms: Middle English lefemon, leofemon, leovemon, levemon, Middle English–1600s lemman, lemmon, Middle English lefman (plural -men), Middle English lemmone, Middle English–1700s lemmane, Middle English lemanne, lemone, lemmande, limman, Middle English–1500s lemane, Middle English–1600s lemon, 1500s leymon, lemonde, lefe man (plural -men), Scottish lamen, 1600s leyman, leiman, leaman, lemain, Middle English– leman. Etymology: Early Middle English leofmon , < leof lief adj. and adv., dear + man n.¹ archaic. 1. a. A person beloved by one of the opposite sex; a lover or sweetheart; †occasionally a husband or wife. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart copenerc897 lovec1225 lemanc1275 sweetinga1300 druery13.. doceamurc1320 paramoura1375 honeybirdc1390 honey-sweetc1440 dowsec1450 heart-rootc1460 prim1509 joa1529 sweetheart1576 love-mate1582 belamour1590 copemate1593 frister1639 sprunny1739 Liebling1868 Liebchen1876 angel pie1878 loved one1879 cariad1899 square piece1925 sheikha1926 sweetie-pie1928 oppo1932 poopsie1937 mi'jita1970 squeeze1980 boo1988 bae2006 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner ferec975 matchOE makec1175 spousea1200 lemanc1275 fellowc1350 likea1393 wed-ferea1400 partyc1443 espouse?c1450 bedfellow1490 yokefellow?1542 espousal1543 spouse1548 mate1549 marrow1554 paragon1557 yokemate1567 partner1577 better halfa1586 twin1592 moiety1611 copemate1631 consort1634 half-marrow1637 matrimonya1640 helpmeet1661 other half1667 helpmate1715 spousie1735 life companion1763 worse half1783 life partner1809 domestic partner1815 ball and chain1921 lover1969 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9287 To Tintaieol he sende his leofmon [c1300 Otho wif] þa wes hende. a1300 Floriz & Bl. 53 Þo floriz iherde his lemman nempne. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 782 Ðo sente he after abram And bi-tagte he him is leman. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4345 ‘Ioseph,’ sco said, ‘to þe lemman, Hendes[t] of all i mak mi man.’ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 320 Now deere lemman quod she go farewel. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxxviii. 166 Maydens of englond sare may ye morne for tyȝt haue ye lost your lemmans at bannokesborne. c1480 (a1400) St. Alexis 494 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 455 My blyse, my beld, my lef-man dere. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 198 Ane sang, The schip salis ouer the salt fame, Wil bring thir merchandis and my lemane hame. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 106 And ilk ȝoung man in courtlie caroling With his lamen thairfoir to dance and sing. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk7 He..offred kingdoms vnto her in vew, To be his Leman and his Lady trew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 24 I sent thee sixe pence for thy Lemon, hadst it? View more context for this quotation 1725 Song, ‘The Cock-laird’ i Thou'-se be my ain lemmane Jo, Jennie, quo' he. 1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 291 The tender parley which these lemans held. †b. Often used, in religious or devotional language, of Christ, the Virgin, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > Mary > [noun] ladyOE queenOE MaryOE St MaryOE starOE Our LadylOE lemana1225 maidena1225 maid Marya1225 heaven queenc1225 mothera1275 maiden Maryc1300 Star of the Seac1300 advocatrixc1390 mother-maidc1390 flower, gem, etc., of virginitya1393 the Virgina1393 mediatricea1400 paramoura1400 salver14.. advocatrice?a1430 Mother of God?a1430 way of indulgence?a1430 advocatessc1450 mother-maidenc1450 rose of Jerichoa1456 mediatrixc1475 viergec1475 addresseressa1492 fleur-de-lis?a1513 rosine?a1513 salvatrice?a1513 saviouress1563 mediatressa1602 advocatress1616 Christotokos1625 Deipara1664 V.M.1670 Madonnaa1684 the Virgin Mother1720 Panagia1776 Mater Dolorosa1800 B.V.M.1838 dispensatrixa1864 Theotokos1874 dispensatress1896 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lover or bridegroom bridegroomeOE lemana1225 a1225 Juliana 17 Mi luue..towart te liuiende godd mi leofsume leofmon. c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Godes spuse, Jeshu cristes brude, þe lauerdes leofmon. a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 199 Iesu, mi lemman. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20517 Cums wit me to mi lemman! Mi moder es scho, hir sun i am. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10664 To godd þan haue i giuen me..O þair husband mai i haf nan, Of him haf i made mi leman. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 805 In Iherusalem was my lemman slayn. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 385 Mercy, Iesu, rew thi leman; Mans saull thou boght full soure! a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. x. 94 Hayls that madyn, my lemman, As heyndly as thou can. 2. In bad sense (cf. paramour n. 3): One who is loved unlawfully; an unlawful lover or mistress. In later archaistic use chiefly applied to the female sex. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress chevesea700 wifeOE bed-sister1297 concubine1297 leman1297 file1303 speciala1400 womanc1400 chamberer?a1425 mistress?a1439 cousin1470 doxy?1515 doll1560 pinnacea1568 nobsya1575 lier-by1583 sweetheart1589 she-friend1600 miss1606 underput1607 concupy1609 lig-by1610 factoress1611 leveret1617 night-piece1621 belly-piece1632 dolly1648 lie-bya1656 madamc1660 small girl1671 natural1674 convenient1676 lady of the lake1678 pure1688 tackle1688 sultana1703 kind girl1712 bosom-slave1728 pop1785 chère amie1792 fancy-woman1819 hetaera1820 fancy-piece1821 poplolly1821 secondary wife1847 other woman1855 fancy-girl1892 querida1902 wifelet1983 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > illicit male lover leman1297 concubinec1430 lover1611 fancy man1811 other man1886 other guy1953 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7069 He..huld ire as is lefmon, as wo seiþ in hordum. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10206 Alle clerkene lefmen in prisoun the king brouȝte. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 3168 Þeos Damus..hadde a lemman hende [c1275 Calig. ane chiuese]. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 100 His wyf anon hath for hir lemman sent Hir lemman? certes this is a knauyssh speche. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 188 And prestes hue menteyneþ To holde lemmanes and lotebyes al here lif-dayes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8887 Quenes had he hundrides seuen þre hundride lemmons [Vesp. concubins]. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 10 On a derke night, as she yede towardes her lemman to foly. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 693 With my gud wyll I wyll no lemman be To no man born. 1515 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 343 We present Wyllyam Perkynsun and hys leymon for bawdre. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 28 b They founde greater gaines by priestes lemmans then they were like to haue by priestes wives. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iv. i. 90 He [Seianus] putteth away Apicata his wife..least his lemmon should haue her in iealousie. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 237 It is a bravery much used to their Wives and Lemons. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 22 It may be his wife ith' mean time had got her self another Lemon and therefore she acknowledged not her husband. 1794 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. 187 And Rochester's address to lemans loose. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. ix. 7 Yea! none did love him—not his lemans dear. 1833 H. Coleridge Poems I. 50 Hope Love's leman is, Despair his wife. 1871 W. H. Dixon Tower IV. v. 45 A lover whom his lemans dupe and cheat. Derivatives ˈlemanless adj. without a leman. ΚΠ a1755 Edom of Gordon xxviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 434 And mony were the fair ladys Lay lemanles at heme. a1830 Lady Margery xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 119/2 I'll make many lady lemanless. ˈlemanry n. (in Scottishlamenry, lamenrie) illicit love. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy lemanry1483 intrigo1648 blanket-lovea1657 intrigue1668 affair1700 connection1791 liaison1816 entanglement1863 mpango wa kando2009 1483 Cath. Angl. 213 A Lemanry, concubitus, concubinatus. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44 Gif siclik lufe cummis of ȝour Lamenrie. 1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 39 He beddit nocht richt oft nor lay hir by, Bot throw lichtnes did lig in Lamenry. a1828 Twa Knights iv, in F. J. Child Ballads III. 25 Lay never your love on lemanry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1225
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