wifelyadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪfli/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪfli/

Forms: see wife n. and -ly suffix¹; also Middle English–1500s wyuely, Middle English–1600s wiuely, 1600s–1700s wively.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch wijflijc (Dutch wijflijk ), Old Saxon wīflik (Middle Low German wīflik ), Old High German wīblīh (Middle High German wīplich , German weiblich ) < the Germanic base of wife n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix¹. Compare wifely adv.

†1. Of or relating to a woman or women; womanly, feminine. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to

wifelyeOE

womanisha1393

femalea1398

wivenc1400

feminine1490

womanly1562

gynaecian1640

muliebral1651

feminal1739

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xvi. 148 He wæs..to þon elreordig, þæt he ne furþum wiiflice [L. muliebri] hade oðþe þære unsceðþendan eldo cilda arede.

OE St. Euphrosyne (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 342 Heo þa þone wiflican gegyrlan hire ofdyde, and hi gescrydde mid werlicum.

OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. ii. 22 Ac hio mid wiflice niðe wæs feohtende on þæt underiende folc Æthiopiam.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 7 All inflambit in ire and wyfly thochtis [L. femineae curaeque iraeque].

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xxii. 123 The victorie..of þis wyfelie contencioun [L. muliebris certaminis] was gevin to lucres.

1787 ‘J. Clinker’ Oration Virtues Old Women 8 A' the wifely gates in the warld will be in him [sc. a widow's son], for want of a father to teach him manly actions.

2. Of a quality, action, etc.: relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a wife.In quot. OE: befitting a married woman (cf. matronal adj.).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife

wifelyOE

wivenc1400

wifelike1566

wifish1607

uxorial1800

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 415 Matronalis [pudicitiae obliuiscens] : wiflicre, mulieris.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 919 Thus with hir fader for a certein space Dwelleth this flour of wifly pacience.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1737 Hire teris ful of oneste Emblemyschid hire wifly [c1450 Fairf. 16 wifely] chastite.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 536 (MED) She scholde doon hir besy cure by a maner wyfly dyllygence In haste ordeyne for his sepulture.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. vii. f. xx^v Howe knowest thou..whether thou shalt..by wyuely loue, cause thy husbande to amende?

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxi. xiii. 163 Against all wiuely care..she lets her raging loue to raunge.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xi. 188 Chiomara..rauished by a Roman captaine, gaue a memorable example of wiuely vertue, for she cut off the fellowes head from his shoulders, and..brought it to her Lord, & husband.

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 28 You know I met you, Kiss'd you, and prest you close within my Arms, With all the tenderness of Wively Love.

1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 57 Wively Patience.

1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 83 Wifely prayer meets deathly need!

1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. ii. 21 The duty of wifely submissiveness to marital authority was impressively inculcated.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 61 Irene..had only been into the room on rare occasions, in discharge of some wifely duty.

1953 R. P. Randall Mary Lincoln xx. 219 Mrs. Lincoln's ever-present wifely concern for her husband was making itself keenly felt.

2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. 33 They maintained dignity and a wifely influence over their husbands even when infidelities occurred.

3. Of a woman: having those qualities traditionally associated with a wife; having a character befitting a wife.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife > such as a wife should be

wifely1580

1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 5^v Unfitt for worme O wifely dame! the worlde hath seldome bredd: A wife of sutche a worthie fame.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xl. 144 Where she a maiden wife might live, and wifely maid.

1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone xvii. 328 A wifely wife, a motherly mother, and above all, a lady.

1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 231 Lest our wives and daughters should lose delicacy or refinement, become less wifely and daughterly.

1927 M. Sadleir Anthony Trollope 17 The end of the 'forties marked the beginning of the Queen's emergence as the first and most wifely lady of the land.

1967 J. Cheever in New Yorker 25 Feb. 47/2 She had plenty of time to shop and cook and be wifely.

2006 New Yorker 2 Oct. 62/1 She's always been wifely in all her relationships.

Derivatives

† ˈwifelihead n. Obsolete the condition of being wifely, wifeliness.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > character or quality of

wifehooda1393

wifelihead1557

wifeliness1865

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Bb.i^v Whose perfect vertues..So did adorne that humble wiuelyhed.

ˈwifeliness n. wifely qualities or characteristics.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > character or quality of

wifehooda1393

wifelihead1557

wifeliness1865

1865 ‘G. Hamilton’ New Atmosphere xiii. 254 The first two vindicating the intellect of wifeliness, the last the wifeliness of intellect.

1918 J. Galsworthy Five Tales 263 Her cool irreproachable wifeliness was a constant balm to him.

2011 N.Y. Mag. 28 Nov. 16/2 It's not that we're all suddenly obsessed, in a post-Middleton world, with embodying demure wifeliness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wifelyadv.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪfli/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪfli/

Forms: see wife n. and -ly suffix²; also Middle English (in a late copy) wyuly.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wife n., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < wife n. + -ly suffix². Compare Middle Dutch wijflike , Middle High German wīplīche , wīplīchen . Compare wifely adj.Quot. c1540 at sense 2 has alternatively been interpreted as showing an error for wynly (see winly adv.).

†1. In a womanly manner; like a woman. Obsolete.Only in Old English.

ΚΠ

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 232 Mulier wif, muliebriter wiflice [c1225 Worcester wifliche].

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Digby 146) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 110/2 Non muliebriter : .i. quasi uiriliter, na wiflice.

lOE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judith (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 114 Þu wunodest æfter þinum were wiflice on clænnysse.

2. In a wifely manner; like a wife.The reading in quot. c1540 is uncertain (cf. note in etymology section).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adverb] > as or in manner of a wife

wifelyc1540

wifelike1579

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 53 Thou shalt haue..me..wyuly [printed wynly] to weld; & I the wed shall.

1872 H. B. Edwardes & H. Merivale Life Sir Henry Lawrence I. iv. 140 How faithfully and wifely she fulfilled it we shall see in due course.

1894 S. J. Higginson Bedouin Girl vi. 37 Ayeba begged her husband to withhold further punishment till she had time to prove how humbly and wifely she would obey his future commands.

1933 R. Graves Poems 1930–33 3 She like a whore made his lewd fancies run And wifely she a hero to him bore.

2009 S. K. Amsterdam Things we didn't see Coming 32 She does it so sweetly, so wifely.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wifely
释义	wifelyadj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪfli/, U.S. /ˈwaɪfli/ Forms: see wife n. and -ly suffix¹; also Middle English–1500s wyuely, Middle English–1600s wiuely, 1600s–1700s wively. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch wijflijc (Dutch wijflijk ), Old Saxon wīflik (Middle Low German wīflik ), Old High German wīblīh (Middle High German wīplich , German weiblich ) < the Germanic base of wife n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix¹. Compare wifely adv. †1. Of or relating to a woman or women; womanly, feminine. Obsolete (Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to wifelyeOE womanisha1393 femalea1398 wivenc1400 feminine1490 womanly1562 gynaecian1640 muliebral1651 feminal1739 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xvi. 148 He wæs..to þon elreordig, þæt he ne furþum wiiflice [L. muliebri] hade oðþe þære unsceðþendan eldo cilda arede. OE St. Euphrosyne (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 342 Heo þa þone wiflican gegyrlan hire ofdyde, and hi gescrydde mid werlicum. OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. ii. 22 Ac hio mid wiflice niðe wæs feohtende on þæt underiende folc Æthiopiam. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 7 All inflambit in ire and wyfly thochtis [L. femineae curaeque iraeque]. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xxii. 123 The victorie..of þis wyfelie contencioun [L. muliebris certaminis] was gevin to lucres. 1787 ‘J. Clinker’ Oration Virtues Old Women 8 A' the wifely gates in the warld will be in him [sc. a widow's son], for want of a father to teach him manly actions. 2. Of a quality, action, etc.: relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a wife.In quot. OE: befitting a married woman (cf. matronal adj.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife wifelyOE wivenc1400 wifelike1566 wifish1607 uxorial1800 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 415 Matronalis [pudicitiae obliuiscens] : wiflicre, mulieris. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 919 Thus with hir fader for a certein space Dwelleth this flour of wifly pacience. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1737 Hire teris ful of oneste Emblemyschid hire wifly [c1450 Fairf. 16 wifely] chastite. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 536 (MED) She scholde doon hir besy cure by a maner wyfly dyllygence In haste ordeyne for his sepulture. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. vii. f. xx^v Howe knowest thou..whether thou shalt..by wyuely loue, cause thy husbande to amende? 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxi. xiii. 163 Against all wiuely care..she lets her raging loue to raunge. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xi. 188 Chiomara..rauished by a Roman captaine, gaue a memorable example of wiuely vertue, for she cut off the fellowes head from his shoulders, and..brought it to her Lord, & husband. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 28 You know I met you, Kiss'd you, and prest you close within my Arms, With all the tenderness of Wively Love. 1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 57 Wively Patience. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 83 Wifely prayer meets deathly need! 1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. ii. 21 The duty of wifely submissiveness to marital authority was impressively inculcated. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 61 Irene..had only been into the room on rare occasions, in discharge of some wifely duty. 1953 R. P. Randall Mary Lincoln xx. 219 Mrs. Lincoln's ever-present wifely concern for her husband was making itself keenly felt. 2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. 33 They maintained dignity and a wifely influence over their husbands even when infidelities occurred. 3. Of a woman: having those qualities traditionally associated with a wife; having a character befitting a wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife > such as a wife should be wifely1580 1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 5^v Unfitt for worme O wifely dame! the worlde hath seldome bredd: A wife of sutche a worthie fame. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xl. 144 Where she a maiden wife might live, and wifely maid. 1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone xvii. 328 A wifely wife, a motherly mother, and above all, a lady. 1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 231 Lest our wives and daughters should lose delicacy or refinement, become less wifely and daughterly. 1927 M. Sadleir Anthony Trollope 17 The end of the 'forties marked the beginning of the Queen's emergence as the first and most wifely lady of the land. 1967 J. Cheever in New Yorker 25 Feb. 47/2 She had plenty of time to shop and cook and be wifely. 2006 New Yorker 2 Oct. 62/1 She's always been wifely in all her relationships. Derivatives † ˈwifelihead n. Obsolete the condition of being wifely, wifeliness. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > character or quality of wifehooda1393 wifelihead1557 wifeliness1865 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Bb.i^v Whose perfect vertues..So did adorne that humble wiuelyhed. ˈwifeliness n. wifely qualities or characteristics. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > character or quality of wifehooda1393 wifelihead1557 wifeliness1865 1865 ‘G. Hamilton’ New Atmosphere xiii. 254 The first two vindicating the intellect of wifeliness, the last the wifeliness of intellect. 1918 J. Galsworthy Five Tales 263 Her cool irreproachable wifeliness was a constant balm to him. 2011 N.Y. Mag. 28 Nov. 16/2 It's not that we're all suddenly obsessed, in a post-Middleton world, with embodying demure wifeliness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wifelyadv. Brit. /ˈwʌɪfli/, U.S. /ˈwaɪfli/ Forms: see wife n. and -ly suffix²; also Middle English (in a late copy) wyuly. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wife n., -ly suffix². Etymology: < wife n. + -ly suffix². Compare Middle Dutch wijflike , Middle High German wīplīche , wīplīchen . Compare wifely adj.Quot. c1540 at sense 2 has alternatively been interpreted as showing an error for wynly (see winly adv.). †1. In a womanly manner; like a woman. Obsolete.Only in Old English. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 232 Mulier wif, muliebriter wiflice [c1225 Worcester wifliche]. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Digby 146) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 110/2 Non muliebriter : .i. quasi uiriliter, na wiflice. lOE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judith (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 114 Þu wunodest æfter þinum were wiflice on clænnysse. 2. In a wifely manner; like a wife.The reading in quot. c1540 is uncertain (cf. note in etymology section). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adverb] > as or in manner of a wife wifelyc1540 wifelike1579 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 53 Thou shalt haue..me..wyuly [printed wynly] to weld; & I the wed shall. 1872 H. B. Edwardes & H. Merivale Life Sir Henry Lawrence I. iv. 140 How faithfully and wifely she fulfilled it we shall see in due course. 1894 S. J. Higginson Bedouin Girl vi. 37 Ayeba begged her husband to withhold further punishment till she had time to prove how humbly and wifely she would obey his future commands. 1933 R. Graves Poems 1930–33 3 She like a whore made his lewd fancies run And wifely she a hero to him bore. 2009 S. K. Amsterdam Things we didn't see Coming 32 She does it so sweetly, so wifely. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.eOEadv.OE
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