单词 | son-in-law |
释义 | son-in-lawn.α. see son n.1 and -in-law comb. form; also 1500s sonnylaw. β. 1500s–1600s son in the law. 1. The husband or male partner of a person's daughter. Formerly also †son in the law. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > son-in-law odamOE son-in-lawa1382 good-son1436 sonlaw1445 good-son-in-law1513 son1533 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) 2 Esdras vi. 18 He was the sone in lawe [L. gener] of Sechenye. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7650 Dauid his sone-in-law for to sla. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 219 Valter, steward of scotland, That..sone-in-law wes to the king. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. lxv Sonne in lawe, gendre. 1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 12 Johne Buchquhannane son in the law to the said Lord Johne Levingstoun. 1574 Will of T. Daye (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/56) f. 374 My son in lawe Robert Dobledaie. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 144 The brides father..sendes great store of daintie dishes vnto his sonne in law. 1639 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 180 I give unto my sonne-in-law..my second best gown. 1680 H. Care Hist. Popish Plot App. 378 Sir Gilbert Gerrard Baronet, Son in the Law to the late Bishop of Durham. 1700 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 385 She left my son in Law..the mansion house of Addscom. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. ii. iv. 16 Her Parents..Shall not their Son-in-law disgrace. 1811 M. R. Mitford Let. 11 Aug. in A. G. L'Estrange Life (1870) I. v. 147 How should you like him for a son-in-law? 1882 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 29 Oct. 3/4 The party included two daughters and two sons-in-law of the reigning Vanderbilt. 1921 E. Ferber Girls iv. 61 He had been a model husband, father, and son-in-law. 1978 R. G. Wesson Lenin's Legacy vi. 226 It was especially irritating that he brought his son-in-law Adzhubei into high-level politics. 2011 Atlantic Monthly June 48/1 Her daughter and son-in-law maintained a mansion of extraordinary size and tackiness on the Mediterranean. 2. A stepson. Now historical and rare.The exact sense intended in quot. 1591 is unclear. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > stepson stepsonc725 son-in-law1566 privign1606 step1895 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > one regarded or reputed as son sonOE son-in-law1566 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxvii. f. 53 Shall not I loue this Ladie, bicause she is my fathers wife?.. Loue commaundeth the brother to loue the sister, loue maketh the doughter so loue the father, the brother his brothers wife, and many tymes the mother her sonne in lawe. 1591 T. Lodge Catharos f. 4v How doth the father of your sonne in law? 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. xii. 474 Cæsar throughly quieted all the nations of that tract..by his son in law whose mother hee had married. 1695 S. Patrick Comm. Genesis (xxxix. 14) 517 There is something like this in Apuleius his Story..of the Step-Mother's Love to her Son-in-law; which was turned into hatred. 1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. i. 21 The Step-mother..can't discern the good Qualities of her Son-in-law. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. & Hist. Rev. 61 483 A girl of thirteen years of age, and her mistress had been committed to the county goal on the confession of the former, for the murder of the son-in-law of the latter, a sprightly child of four years of age. 1845 Morning Post 21 Apr. 5/5 Madame de Lucenne, a very young mother, is determined to reform her rake of a son-in-law, by paying his debts and marrying him to the sister of the friend who has led him into all sorts of follies. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1521/2 Stepmothers spoke of raising ‘sons-in-law’ rather than sons of their own blood. Derivatives ˈson-in-lawˌship n. the state, condition, or fact of being a son-in-law. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > relationship of son-in-law son-in-lawship1825 1825 J. Heney Agnes lii. 657 Such an one came armed with the best arguments for the son-in-lawship. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. ix. 163 It immersed him so deeply in son-in-lawship to Melbury. 1983 S. Rushdie Shame xi. 232 Perhaps Talvar Ulhaq was just a little too good to be true with his pose of ideal son-in-lawship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1382 |
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