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单词 moabitess
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Moabitessn.

Brit. /ˌməʊəbʌɪˈtɛs/, /ˌməʊəbᵻˈtɛs/, /ˈməʊəbʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmoʊəˌbaɪdəs/
Forms: 1500s Moabitisse, 1600s Moabitesse, 1600s– Moabitess; Scottish pre-1700 Moabitis, 1800s Moabitess.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Moabite n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < Moabite n. + -ess suffix1, after post-classical Latin Moabitis (Vulgate).
A Moabite woman. Frequently with reference to Ruth ‘the Moabitess’ ( Ruth 1–4).
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1530 Bible (Coverdale) Ruth ii. 6 The damsell the Moabitisse.
1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) xlix. 35 Ruth the kynd Moabitis.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxiv. 26 Iehozabad the sonne of Shimrith a Moabitesse . View more context for this quotation
1677 D. Gookin Hist. Christian Indians in Archaeologia Americana (1836) 2 454 Rahab the harlot, and Ruth the Moabitess.
1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs V. iii. 54 ‘Let me find favour in thy sight, for thou hast comforted me!’ said the fair Moabitess.
1849 J. H. Newman Disc. Mixed Congr. x. 220 To say with the favoured Moabitess, ‘Whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go,’..this is the language of faith.
1897 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 368 There is nothing in the character of the monarchs of the Davidic dynasty that..would encourage a writer to trace their descent from a poor and homeless Moabitess.
1970 Bible (New Eng.) Ruth i. 22 This is how Naomi's daughter-in-law, Ruth the Moabitess, returned with her from the Moabite country.
1991 M. Duggan Consuming Fire xxxiv. 447 In the postexilic period, the story of the union between Ruth the Moabitess and Boaz, the great-grandfather of David, could have been a counterbalance to the injunctions..against the marriages between Jews and foreigners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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