单词 | brotherliness |
释义 | brotherlinessn. 1. Christian Church. With possessive adjective, as your brotherliness. A title of respect or form of address used by one ecclesiastical dignitary of high rank to another, esp. a bishop. historical in later use.Now usually with capital initial.In quots. eOE1, eOE2 rendering post-classical Latin fraternitas in a letter of Pope Gregory I to Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xvi. 64 Ac forðon þin broðorlicnes [OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. broðorlicnys; L. fraternitas] is in mynstres regolum getyd & gelæred, ne scealt þu hwæþre sundor beon from þinum geferum in Ongolcircan. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xvi. 74 Alle Bretta biscopas we bebeodað þinre broðorlicnesse, to ðon þætte unlærde seon gelærede. 1842 tr. Anselm of Canterbury in Brit. Critic Jan. 168 I needs must grieve with your Brotherliness, as one who the more he is exalted, is loaded with the greater tribulation. 1843 J. M. Neale Agnes de Tracy ii. i. 123 The letter of your brotherlinesses (which yet we can hardly believe to have proceeded from your common wisdom) we have..unexpectedly received. 1908 L. B. Radford Henry Beaufort viii. 147 The Pope wrote to..John de Obicis, papal collector in England,..to urge him to thank ‘his brotherliness’ (the bishop). 1999 R. W. Mathisen tr. Ruricius of Limoges in Ruricius of Limoges & Friends 124 I received the words of Your Brotherliness which rendered me not a little uneasy. 2. The quality of being brotherly; brotherly feeling or affection. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love between kinsmen > brotherly love > quality or state of being brotherly brothershipOE brotherredOE brotherheada1400 brotherhooda1425 fraternity1470 brotherliness?1533 fraternalism1893 ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. lxxv If brotherlynesse will not helpe..let him execute thi power. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Table Script. Quots. Honour all men, love brotherlinesse [L fraternitatem]. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. 425 The brotherlinesse [L. fraternitas] of the Generals drew exceeding fauor to that side. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Fraternality, Brotherhood; Brotherliness, brotherly Affection. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. 234 Louisa..burst forth into raptures of admiration and delight on the character of the navy—their friendliness, their brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness. View more context for this quotation 1888 London Society Jan. 83 The latter he treated as a sister; but it was a brotherliness with a dash of salt. 1932 W. Soutar Diary 3 Dec. in Diaries of Dying Man (1991) iii. 25 The clannishness of the family, if responsible for so much social stability, is yet very often a thorn of selfishness in the body of brotherliness. 1985 New York 11 Feb. 56/2 These two are an engaging, believable team..but the show does not allow their relationship to assume a clear shape: friendship, brotherliness, or something beyond. 2014 P. Hensher Emperor Waltz i. iv. 17 Christian had the distinct impression that Neddermeyer was now about to change his mind about his previous brotherliness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE |
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