单词 | our first mother |
释义 | > as lemmasour first mother c. A female ancestor, esp. with reference to Eve, frequently as our first mother (Genesis 3:20). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > female motherOE progenitrixc1487 progenitrice?a1505 grandmother1526 ancestress1580 foremother1582 progenitress1611 predecessrix1640 mai1845 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) i. 182 God..geworhte of ðam ribbe ænne wifman... Heo is ealra lybbendra modor. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 212 Proauia, þridde moder. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. iii. 20 And adam clepide þe name of his wyf Eue, þoru þat sche was moder of all þingez lyuing. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 934 (MED) Eue..þat moder of mani es. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 33 (MED) Iohane..yaf and graunted..for the helþe of the soules of his fadirs and modirs and of all his aunceturs..ij hydys of lond. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 689 (MED) Hec proava, the forne modyre. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. l. 84 That woman..that Eve we call, For scho wes modyr of ws all. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 273 Our first muder. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xvii. 16 Yea I wil blesse her, and she shalbe a mother of nations. View more context for this quotation 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 154 When hee [sc. the infernall serpent] first bit and stung our first mother Eue, leauing fast sticking in vs the sting of sinne. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 159 Whence Haile to thee, Eve rightly call'd, Mother of all Mankind. View more context for this quotation 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magic (1840) i. iii. 86 The first attack the Devil made upon our Mother Eve we have had fully described. 1791 M. De Fleury Divine Poems & Ess. 218 The first woman, the mother of all living;..Eve..the beloved spouse of Adam. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 322 Thus ejaculated the two worthy representatives of mother Eve. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 342 Eve the mother of mankind. 1903 T. W. H. Crosland Five Notions 39 Eve, our common mother, By pretty, female tricks, Helped to bring us, her children, Into our present fix. 1992 Sci. Amer. Apr. 26/2 With a third set of data on changes in a section of the mitochondrial DNA called the control region, we arrived at a more ancient date for the common mother. < as lemmas |
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