英语词汇“novercal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

novercal

释义

novercal, a.|nəʊˈvɜːkəl|
Also 7 nouercall.
[ad. L. novercālis, f. noverca stepmother.]
Characteristic of, or resembling, a stepmother.
1623Cockeram Eng. Dict. i., Nouercall, belonging to a step-mother.1646Buck Rich. III 41 Fortune..soone cald for the Principall and Interest from this Prince, to whom she was meerly Novercall.1661Hickeringill Jamaica 12 The Soil is so pregnant and fertile, that nature hath stor'd it in no niggardly nor novercal benevolence.1713Derham Phys. Theol. vii. vi. 392 It is a wonderfull Deviation, that some few families [of birds] only should do it in a more novercal way.1767W. Bennet Let. to Parr P.'s Wks. 1828 VII. 69 A firmer basis than either novercal rapacity would have designed, or novercal malice left you.1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 767 In compensation of this novercal usage, fortune has given him a long purse.1868Browning Ring & Bk. ii. 490 Guido's old lady-mother Beatrice..Was recognised of true novercal type, Dragon and devil.

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