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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 513
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the dated printed-text quotation. It documents one early modern definition in context, not the timeless original meaning of every use of friend.
Present-Day Englishbefore 1637, source-reportedestablished
friend
Hobbes translation of Aristotle, explicit love definition
“A Friend is he that loves, and he that is beloved.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1637
- LOCATOR
- Meaning A.1a; Briefe Art Rhetorique ii.76
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfriend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1309 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — friend, n. & adj.
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary editors
- YEAR
- 2013
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-friend