well-livingn.²

Brit.

/ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/

Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and living n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., living n.²

Etymology: < well adv. + living n.² Compare earlier well-living adj.

Now somewhat archaic.

The action or fact of leading a good life, esp. with respect to moral virtue.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous life

high lifea1225

well-livingc1390

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 223 (MED) Ioye for þe worþily wonynge..is ordeynt to wel lyuynge, Serwe also to haue þerbi ffor vre liuynge vnrihtfuli.

a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 243 (MED) For who to wele-lifing sall win, With greuauns grete þaim bus bigin.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. X.iij^v He is a priest, and hath offended, whiche should haue geuen good example to other of well liuyng.

1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia f. 250 A ridiculous Orator, that speaking of the precepts of well liuing, doth lasciuiously and riotously superabound in rhetoricall exornations.

1612 F. Rollenson Twelue Prophetical Legacies i. 8 None can attaine to the happinesse of well-dying, vnlesse hee accommodate and applie himselfe to well-liuing.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 15 The first [part of Philosophy], concerning well living.

1700 B. Jenks Submission Righteousness of God 101 If the Well-Living greatly depends upon the Sound Believing: The Credenda then, I think, ought to have a fair treatment, as well as the Agenda.

1749 A. Smith Some Temporal Advantages in keeping Covenant with God i. 6 The most compleat Body of the plainest and perfectest Rules of well-living.

1826 Lit. Magnet 4 125 To the good, this advice and the scheme it includes, will need no other recommendation, than that what is urged has well-living for its object.

1891 J. Marshall Short Hist. Greek Philos. xix. 197 The full or perfect state, which, seeking to realise an absolute self-sufficiency within itself, rises from mere living to well-living as an aim of existence.

1910 Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Oct. 498 If proper attention to well living is persisted in, diseases may be averted and old age indefinitely deferred.

1928 G. A. Coe Motives of Men xvi. 133 Industrialism in its present form unquestionably pushes into the background the motives of concrete well-living.

1994 B. W. Stuart in R. B. Ashmore & W. C. Starr Teaching Ethics 187 The process of moral discernment and activity which characterize a student's flourishing life—the well-living of a moral person.

2009 M. Zadoorian Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit 46 Their commitment to the well-living of the American dream.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

well-livingadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/

Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and living adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., living adj.

Etymology: < well adv. + living adj.

Designating a person who leads a virtuous or (in later use) comfortable life. Also as n. (chiefly with the and plural agreement): such people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > of good life or living aright

well-livingeOE

clean-living1920

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xvii. 107 Ongean ða godan & ða wellibbendan forsio he his ealdordom suæ suiðe ðæt he..ða ðe him underðiedde sien læte him gelice [L. honore suppresso aequalem se subditis bene uiuentibus deputet].

OE Rule St. Benet (Tiber.) (1888) lxxiii. 118 Quid aliud sunt, nisi bene viventium et obedientium monachorum instituta virtutum? : hwæt elles sind butan wel libbendra & gehirsumera muneca & gesetnessa mihta.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 431 Þere aren witty and wel libbynge [L. justi atque sapientes] ac her werkes ben yhudde In þe hondes of almiȝty god.

a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 147 (MED) Sum sawles to esy places wendes Thurgh prayers of wele-lifand frendes.

a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 11 Men writen fynde Þat synne is cause of cowardyse; Wel lyuyng man, hardy of kynde.

1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. 109 When of a good father is borne an euil and euil-liuing sonne: or of a good father a good and wel liuing son.

1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 87 Thi self wsand thy witchecraft, altogidder contrarius to the natour of weill levand personis.

1621 R. Broughton Eng. Protestants Plea 4 The holy scripture soe describeth the dutie of well lyuing men.

1694 J. Gailhard Just & Sober Vindic. 11 A laborious Preaching and Praying, and well-living Ministry, which slow Bellies and lazy Labourers do not like.

1782 in T. Orem Descr. of Chanonry in Old Aberdeen in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 3. 165 He was a good, honest, well-living man.

1790 Ann. Agric. 13 58 A set of comfortably well-living labourers is more eligible than that of wretched and poor farmers.

1814 M. Brunton Discipline III. xxix. 243 He's been a well-living Christian all's days, and a good husband he's been.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iv. 55 The mass of piously-minded and well-living people in all ranks of the community.

1898 Academy 17 Sept. 272/1 Attach yourself to the well-living and sensible, to everyone from whom you find there is real benefit derivable.

1904 Clin. Jrnl. 23 324/1 He is..rather a well-living gouty sort of person.

1986 R. D. Kendall Drama of Dissent 70 The apotheosis of the ignorant but well-living plowman.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	well-living
释义	well-livingn.² Brit. /ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/ Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and living n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., living n.² Etymology: < well adv. + living n.² Compare earlier well-living adj. Now somewhat archaic. The action or fact of leading a good life, esp. with respect to moral virtue. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous life high lifea1225 well-livingc1390 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 223 (MED) Ioye for þe worþily wonynge..is ordeynt to wel lyuynge, Serwe also to haue þerbi ffor vre liuynge vnrihtfuli. a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 243 (MED) For who to wele-lifing sall win, With greuauns grete þaim bus bigin. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. X.iij^v He is a priest, and hath offended, whiche should haue geuen good example to other of well liuyng. 1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia f. 250 A ridiculous Orator, that speaking of the precepts of well liuing, doth lasciuiously and riotously superabound in rhetoricall exornations. 1612 F. Rollenson Twelue Prophetical Legacies i. 8 None can attaine to the happinesse of well-dying, vnlesse hee accommodate and applie himselfe to well-liuing. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 15 The first [part of Philosophy], concerning well living. 1700 B. Jenks Submission Righteousness of God 101 If the Well-Living greatly depends upon the Sound Believing: The Credenda then, I think, ought to have a fair treatment, as well as the Agenda. 1749 A. Smith Some Temporal Advantages in keeping Covenant with God i. 6 The most compleat Body of the plainest and perfectest Rules of well-living. 1826 Lit. Magnet 4 125 To the good, this advice and the scheme it includes, will need no other recommendation, than that what is urged has well-living for its object. 1891 J. Marshall Short Hist. Greek Philos. xix. 197 The full or perfect state, which, seeking to realise an absolute self-sufficiency within itself, rises from mere living to well-living as an aim of existence. 1910 Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Oct. 498 If proper attention to well living is persisted in, diseases may be averted and old age indefinitely deferred. 1928 G. A. Coe Motives of Men xvi. 133 Industrialism in its present form unquestionably pushes into the background the motives of concrete well-living. 1994 B. W. Stuart in R. B. Ashmore & W. C. Starr Teaching Ethics 187 The process of moral discernment and activity which characterize a student's flourishing life—the well-living of a moral person. 2009 M. Zadoorian Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit 46 Their commitment to the well-living of the American dream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). well-livingadj.n.¹ Brit. /ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈlɪvɪŋ/ Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and living adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., living adj. Etymology: < well adv. + living adj. Designating a person who leads a virtuous or (in later use) comfortable life. Also as n. (chiefly with the and plural agreement): such people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [adjective] > of good life or living aright well-livingeOE clean-living1920 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xvii. 107 Ongean ða godan & ða wellibbendan forsio he his ealdordom suæ suiðe ðæt he..ða ðe him underðiedde sien læte him gelice [L. honore suppresso aequalem se subditis bene uiuentibus deputet]. OE Rule St. Benet (Tiber.) (1888) lxxiii. 118 Quid aliud sunt, nisi bene viventium et obedientium monachorum instituta virtutum? : hwæt elles sind butan wel libbendra & gehirsumera muneca & gesetnessa mihta. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 431 Þere aren witty and wel libbynge [L. justi atque sapientes] ac her werkes ben yhudde In þe hondes of almiȝty god. a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 147 (MED) Sum sawles to esy places wendes Thurgh prayers of wele-lifand frendes. a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 11 Men writen fynde Þat synne is cause of cowardyse; Wel lyuyng man, hardy of kynde. 1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. 109 When of a good father is borne an euil and euil-liuing sonne: or of a good father a good and wel liuing son. 1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 87 Thi self wsand thy witchecraft, altogidder contrarius to the natour of weill levand personis. 1621 R. Broughton Eng. Protestants Plea 4 The holy scripture soe describeth the dutie of well lyuing men. 1694 J. Gailhard Just & Sober Vindic. 11 A laborious Preaching and Praying, and well-living Ministry, which slow Bellies and lazy Labourers do not like. 1782 in T. Orem Descr. of Chanonry in Old Aberdeen in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 3. 165 He was a good, honest, well-living man. 1790 Ann. Agric. 13 58 A set of comfortably well-living labourers is more eligible than that of wretched and poor farmers. 1814 M. Brunton Discipline III. xxix. 243 He's been a well-living Christian all's days, and a good husband he's been. 1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iv. 55 The mass of piously-minded and well-living people in all ranks of the community. 1898 Academy 17 Sept. 272/1 Attach yourself to the well-living and sensible, to everyone from whom you find there is real benefit derivable. 1904 Clin. Jrnl. 23 324/1 He is..rather a well-living gouty sort of person. 1986 R. D. Kendall Drama of Dissent 70 The apotheosis of the ignorant but well-living plowman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.²c1390adj.n.¹eOE
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