单词 | sistership |
释义 | sistershipn.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > sisterly sistership1535 society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > condition of being nunnerya1350 sisterheada1393 nunryc1450 sistership1535 sisterhood?1540 nunnishness1570 nunship1624 the veil1791 nunhooda1834 1535 Instr. Kynges Highnes in Valor Ecclesiasticus (1810) I. (following Gen. Introd.) Item to serche and knowe the name of..every other person that hath eny other dignytie fellowship brothership sustership..or other promocion spirituall, that runnyth and goith by succession. 1840 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. I. 294 (note) Those favoured ladies who..are fortunate enough to obtain sisterships. 1843 Ld. J. Manners Let. 30 Dec. in Mrs. Brookfield & her Circle (1905) 133 They are not to be bound by vows, but during their Sistership to obey all the rules of the House. 2. Sisterly affection, fellowship, or relationship; sisterliness, sisterhood; an instance of this. Also: the fact or position of being a sister (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > sisterly condition or relationship sisterheada1393 sisterhooda1393 sistership1793 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > sisterly quality sisterliness1780 sistership1793 1793 S. Burrell Poems I. 199 The vain pretender always claims A sistership, and joins our names. 1859 Littell's Living Age 9 Apr. 110/1 It may be perfectly well known what precise relationship of cousinship, sistership, or nieceship, Mrs. Abiah Franklin, Mrs. Franklin, Miss Sarah Franklin, Miss Jane Mecom, and Miss Mary Stevenson may have borne. 1867 Harper's Mag. Feb. 373/2 Nor ever had the sistership of their mothers been beautified by love more tender than yearned from her toward this cousin. 1931 M. T. Van Epps Nancy Pembroke, Senior 50 The real rudeness shown by some of our sorority sisters toward one another..make a mockery of our ‘sistership’. 1986 D. Potter Singing Detective iv. 145 A few girls come out of Skinscape's, well-wrapped, arm in arm in a mildly alcoholic sistership. 2015 Northern Territory News (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July 42 The..support and ‘sistership’ gained in their school years ensure that St Mary's boarders leave as well-rounded contributors to society. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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