minnesingern.
/ˈmɪnᵻsɪŋə/, /ˈmɪnᵻzɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈmɪnəˌsɪŋər/, /ˈmɪnəˌzɪŋər/ Now historical.
Any of the German lyrical poets and singers of the 12th to 14th centuries, whose songs were chiefly concerned with courtly love. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > minnesinger or Meistersinger
minnesinger1817
Meistersinger1818
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > lyric poet > Minnesinger
minnesinger1817
1800 S. T. Coleridge Memoranda for Hist. Eng. Poetry in Coll. Wks. (1995) i. 107 Chaucer—illustrated by the Minnesänger, and as in all that follow an endeavor to ascertain..what and how much of this belonged strictly et sibi proprium to Chaucer himself.
1814 H. Weber et al. Illustr. Northern Antiquities 4 The Parisian Codex of the works of a hundred and forty troubadours, (Minnesænger,) which appeared in two volumes quarto.]
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 203 I read with sedulous accuracy the Minnesinger (or singers of love, the provencal poets of the Swabian court) and the metrical romances.
1825 E. Taylor (title) Lays of the Minnesingers, or German Troubadours.
1825 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary 159 And the Minnesinger's thrilling lay In the hall died fast away.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. iv. 104 The foolery of minstrels and strolling minnesingers.
1845 H. W. Longfellow Walter von der Vogelweid xi Round the Gothic spire, Screamed the feathered Minnesingers.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 859/1 Engelhart und Engeltrut, by the minnesinger Conrad von Würzburg.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Mod. Lover (1934) 28 Oh, gentle joust of ultimate sentiment, oh, last sweet throw of love, wherein we fall, spoon-overthrown! Shall I be Minnesinger of the spoon?
1995 O. Lee First Intermissions ix. 84 Tannhaüser..a man torn..between two worlds... One of the worlds is represented by..the minnesingers with their chaste and courtly approach to the problems of human existence.
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ˈMinnesinging n. rare
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1825 E. Taylor Lays of Minnesingers 199 The great fostering place of the Minnesinging art.
1957 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 41 159/2 A discussion of The Doll's House should be preceded by a brief historical survey of the social lot of the non-aristocratic woman in succeeding periods of stagnation: pagan prejudice..; deprecation, worship, witchcraft, and minnesinging in medieval times; [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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