bairn-time

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English

Etymology

From Scots bairntime, from Middle English barntem, from Old English bearntēam. Influenced by time.

Noun

bairn-time (plural bairn-times)

  1. (obsolete) Offspring; the group of all offspring.
    • 1692, Thomas Bell, “Sermon Hoſea 2: 14: Therefore behold, I will allure her, I will bring her into the winderneſs, and ſpeak comfortably unto her”, in Nehemiah the Tirſhatha: or, The Character of a Good Commiſſioner.  , Edinburgh:   George Mosman, page 84:
      And thus they have thought , that when a Family or Bairn-time incline to a Conſumption (which being a diſeaſe hereditary runs much in a blood) in that caſe it is good that they part Company, and live at a diſtance one from another, for that the diſeaſe is ſtrengthned by their ſocial conversation.
    • 1745 [1737], The Wonderful Scotch Prophecy: or, the Whole Viſions, Discoveries, and Warnings of the Dreadful and Terrible Judgements upon Scotland, England and Ireland,  , London:   John Lewis, page 9:
      I had once a bony bairn-time of bairns (a great many good children) in Scotland, which they bereaved me of; ſome of whom they ſent to foreign lands and plantations, others they drowned in the ſea, others they killed in the fields upon gibbets and ſcaffolds, for which I will drive them out of their houſes, as ſheep are driven in a ſtormy day before the ſtorm, ſeeking for ſhelter, but finding none;
    • 1755, Some Remarkable Paſſages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden. Late Miniſter of the Goſpel of New Glenluce in Galloway, Belfast:   James Magee, page 33:
      4thly, A Stone cut out of the Mountain, ſhould come down, and God ſhould be avenged on the great ones of the Earth, and the Inhabitants of the Land, for their Wickedneſs; and then the Church ſhould come forth with a bony Bairn-time at her Back, of young Ones; []

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English barntem, from Old English bearntēam. Influenced by time.

Noun

bairn-time (plural bairn-times)

  1. Alternative spelling of bairntime

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