单词 | birth stain |
释义 | birth stainn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original fleshc1200 original sinc1350 falla1400 birth poison1528 birth sin?1546 fall from grace1560 lapse1659 lapse from grace1687 birth stain1820 felix culpa1963 1820 J. Ellerton Acct. Creation World & First Ages vii. 40 He makes death the medium of their complete perfection: for then their liberated spirits put off with their bodies, whatever remained of their birth stain, and becoming completely spotless, enter into everlasting bliss. 2. A mole or birthmark. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > birth-mark birthmark1579 longing mark1644 native note1658 signature1659 naevus1684 mother spot1690 naevus maternus1726 mother's mark1797 mother mark1822 strawberry-mark1847 birth stain1850 port wine mark1853 spider cancer1898 spider-naevus1898 spider1942 spider angioma1956 1850 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. & Collateral Sci. 4 66 As regards the name of the disease in point, its synonymes are several. We have ‘aneurism by anastomosis’ of Bell;..‘erectile tumors’, ‘nevi’, ‘birth stains’, &c. 2001 Lit. Rev. Fall 38 Below one of his eyes, a small birthstain, attractive, resembles the map of France. 3. The negative connotation or social stigma attached to Australians of convict ancestry or Australia's history in relation to the transportation of convicts in the 19th century. Chiefly after or with allusion to the verses referring to the city of Sydney in Kipling's poem Song of the Cities (see quot. 1893). Quot. 1899 is a paraphrase of quot. 1893 by William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, then Governor of New South Wales. ΚΠ 1893 R. Kipling Song of Eng. in Eng. Illustr. Mag. May 537 Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness; The first flush of the tropics in my blood, And at my feet Success! 1899 Sydney Morning Herald 11 May 5/6 Greeting,—Your birthstain have you turned to good, Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness, The first flush of the tropics in your blood, And at your feet success. 1937 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 4 Mar. 14/6 Men who talked about Australia show good taste if they kept off convict history, and refrained from dragging in the alleged ‘birth-stain’. 2012 J. D. Carl et al. Think Sociol. iii. 37/2 Many Australians..are delighted to discover they have convict ancestry, transforming what had once been considered the nation's ‘birth stain’ into a source of national pride. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1820 |
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