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单词 noahs flood
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Noah's floodn.

Brit. /ˌnəʊəz ˈflʌd/, U.S. /ˌnoʊəz ˈfləd/
Forms:

α. Old English Noes floð, Old English Noeys flod, Old English–Middle English Noes flod, early Middle English Noþess flod ( Ormulum), Middle English Noees flod, Middle English Noees flood, Middle English Noes floode, Middle English Noes flude, Middle English Noyes flod, Middle English Noyes flood, Middle English Noyous flood, Middle English–1500s Noes flode, Middle English–1500s Noes flood, 1500s Noes floude, 1500s Noes fludd, 1500s Noyes fflud, 1500s–1600s Noes floud, 1600s Noahs floud, 1600s Noahs floude, 1600s–1700s Noahs flood, 1600s– Noah's flood; also Scottish pre-1700 Noese flude, pre-1700 Noes flude.

β. Middle English Noweles flood, Middle English Nowelis flood, Middle English Nowelles flood, Middle English Nowels flood, Middle English Nowelys flood.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Noah , flood n.
Etymology: < the genitive of Noah, the name of a patriarch in the Old Testament (see Noah's Ark n.) + flood n., with reference to the story in Genesis 6–9 (see sense 1).For discussion of forms of the name Noah see etymological note s.v. Noah's Ark n. The β. forms are attested only in Chaucer Miller's Tale (compare quot. c1390 at sense 2), and are perhaps to be taken as forms with diminutive suffix -el suffix2 (or as remodellings after the forename Noel , Nowell : see noel n., Nowell n.), used with punning allusion to Nowell the feast of Christmas (see Nowell n.), as the character of the carpenter in the tale is satirically presented as both mock Noah and mock Joseph. In Middle English, forms without genitival composition are also occasionally attested (as e.g. Noe flod, Noe flode), probably reflecting the invariable inflection of many names of non-classical origin in the Vulgate.
1. = flood n. 4b.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > Biblical
Noah's floodOE
the floodOE
diluvya1325
delugec1386
diluvec1386
sin-flood1550
cataclysm1637
Noachian deluge1711
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > the flood
Noah's floodOE
the floodOE
Yore-flood1876
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) vi. 224 Abraham wæs godes gespreca & god to him genam geþoftrædene æfter noes flode swiþost. & him to cwæð; Ic eom ælmihtig drihten.
lOE Prose Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn I (1982) xxiii. 29 Saga me hu lange was noes flod ofer eorðan.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 3 After Noes flode ymba wintra a þusund.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 6258 Gurguint heom sende in to Irlonde, þar nas nauer nan man seoððen Noes flod hit hauede ouer gan.
c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3518 Half so greet was neuere Noes flood.
c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 2689 (MED) For thai telleth that Noes floode Neuere vppon þat grounde stoode.
1555 E. Bonner Homelies ii. f. 8 He drowned all the worlde wyth Noes fludd.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. Ded. 47 Mountains being only the product of Noahs flood, where the violence of the waters aggested the earth.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 65 From the first creation of the world down to Noah's flood.
1849 J. A. Froude Nemesis of Faith 127 The sucking children of the unchosen were not saved in Noah's flood.
1997 U.S. News & World Rep. (Electronic ed.) 16 June Baumgardner says scientists wrongly assume that geology happens consistently, that there could have been..no Noah's flood.
2. Any great deluge; (the type of) a cataclysmic flood. Also figurative.In quot. a1550, with reference to making the matter in a crucible too moist.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3818 This carpenter..herde oon cryen ‘water!’ as he were wood, And thoughte, ‘allas, now cometh Nowelys flood.’
a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 57v Cibacione is called a feding of our matter drye withe milke and meate... But give it never so miche that thou yt glutt. Beware of the dropsey, & also of noes flode.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 108 Anti. That's a fault that water will mend. Dro. No sir, 'tis in graine, Noahs flood could not do it. View more context for this quotation
1795 J. Wolcot Pindariana in Wks. P. Pindar (1816) III. 185 To Queensb'ry doth a Douglas look; Boasting a certain portion of that blood, Not to be wash'd away by Noah's flood.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xiv. 71 There lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
1976 Economist (Nexis) 31 July 58 Anything from a controlled leak in the dike to opening the sluice gates or indeed to Noah's flood.
1998 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 3 Mar. a2 A carelessly crafted bill that was too broad could trigger Noah's flood of litigation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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