lovedayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlʌvdeɪ/

名詞

loveday (plural lovedays)

1. (now historical) A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day. [from 14th c.]
   • 1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, page 60:

     legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference […].

   • 1994, John Clarence Bedell, Dispute Settlement and the Control of Violence in England, 1272-1330:

     In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest.

2. (chiefly poetic) A day devoted to love. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

参照

Further reading

• loveday (arbitration) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

From love (“love”) +‎ day (“day”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈluv(ə)ˌdæi̯/

名詞

loveday (plural lovedayes)

1. loveday (day for dispute resolution)
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:

     She ledeth þe lawe as hire list · and louedayes maketh / And doth men lese þorw hire loue · þat lawe myȝte wynne.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figuratively) Any time of peaceableness.

派生した語

• English: (now historical) loveday

参照

• “lǒve-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.