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单词 to do a friendship
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to do (someone) a friendship
3. A friendly or helpful act; a favour typical or characteristic of a friend. Chiefly in to do (someone) a friendship. Also: friendly aid. Now rare.
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friendshipc1175
c1175 (?OE) Instr. for Christians 98 in Anglia (1964) 82 14 Se ðe ear gifð [read ær gifeð] and eft oftihð bearna gehwylce, bysmer he gewyrceð furþur mycele þonne ænig freondscipe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 242 Heo wlleð þe freonscipe don.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 1362 And nere the freendshipe þat ye dide er this To me ye sholde paye moore y-wis.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1884 (MED) Dede wil na frendshepe do ne favour.
1431 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 99 The greet plaisirs and kyndenesses..and frendeshippes whiche [they]..haue doon and shewed vs.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xviii. C A frende that delyteth in loue, doth a man more frendshipe, and sticketh faster vnto him then a brother.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 63 Hard by here is a houell, some friendship will it lend you gainst the tempest. View more context for this quotation
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe ii. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn3v/1 You have done me friendships infinite and often.
1703 Athenian Oracle II. 275/2 You do 'em a friendship.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 235 It is not he who gives you money, but he who puts you into a way of getting it, that does you a friendship.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxxi. 298 I then remarked that he would do me a friendship if he would set his people the example by first dealing with me himself.
1905 Rep. 11th Ann. Meeting Pennsylvania Bar Assoc. 177 There is nothing in this act which hinders any one who desires to do a friendship.
1937 P. Sturges in A. Horton Three more Screenplays by Preston Sturges (1998) 294 I'm doing her a friendship and she wants to play puss in a corner.
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