单词 | paladin |
释义 | paladinn.adj. A. n. In modern forms of the Charlemagne romances: any of the twelve peers or most famed warriors of Charlemagne's court. Hence: a knight renowned for heroism and chivalry; a famous champion; spec. a Knight of the Round Table. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior thanec893 berne937 helethOE wightlingc1330 felona1400 viragoa1513 thunderer1586 paladin1592 Fian1787 beau sabreur1834 war hero1898 the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior > knightly hero knight-errantc1400 knight adventurous1429 knight of adventurers1530 paladin1592 Palmerin1613 knight adventurera1640 erranta1643 preux chevalier1771 Galahad1854 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > who possessed territory in France > body of peers in France > one of peers of France douzepersc1275 peer1488 paladin1592 1592 S. Daniel Delia xlvi Let others sing of Knights and Palladines. 1598 R. Barnfield Encomion Lady Pecunia i. sig. A4 Angellica the faire, (For whom the Palladine of Fraunce fell mad). c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 5 Of braue Orlando the greate palladyne. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Palatinate Certain knights of this Island, in ancient times called Knights of the round Table, were called Paladines. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xxxiii. lxxi They gave themselves too lofty vantery, That France no knight or Paladin could shew To stand before the weakest of them three. 1787 W. Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 2 Aug. (1954) 150 No paladin who drank at the fountains of Merlin was ever more suddenly disenchanted. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 411 The true Peers and Paladins of French chivalry. 1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics xiii. 283 Resolved on treading in the footsteps of Charlemagne and his paladins. 1882 J. E. Jenkins (title) A paladin of finance. 1926 Amer. Mercury July p. xiii, (advt.) The hope of literary history, the paladin to whom we look to deliver us from the dragon of historical dreariness. 1992 Dragon Mag. Feb. 23/1 The paladin is a heroic figure of epic quests. B. adj. That is a paladin; of or relating to a paladin; knightly, heroic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [adjective] heroical?a1475 heroicc1550 heroic1592 Argonautic1794 paladin1845 Bunyanesque1888 1845 J. H. Ingraham Henry Howard i. 4 In imitation of the ancient paladin knights, I have chosen to surrender my arms to the most formidable of my enemies, matrimony. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiv. 270 The spirit of her old Paladin ancestor. 1917 R. W. Chambers in D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox I. Pref. p. v His was a knightly mind; a paladin character. 1995 This Mag. July 14/1 Klein and Manning both make much of their western roots, with Ralph playing the gunslinger and Preston the paladin evangelist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1592 |
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