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livelihood

sostantivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//ˈlaɪvlihʊd//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈlaɪvlihʊd//
  • Scozia//ˈlaɪvlɪhʉd//

A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).

sostantivo

  1. 1

    A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).

    an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain / win a good livelihood by the sweat of one's brow

    But now when Philtra ſaw my lands decay, And former liuelod fayle, ſhe left me quight[…].

    […] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.

    1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245, Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.

  2. 2

    arcaicoProperty which brings in an income; an estate.

    Then ſayde Peter: Ananias how is it that ſatan hath filled thyne hert thatt thou ſhuldeſt lye vnto the holy gooſt and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off the lyvelod[…]?

  3. 3

    obsoletoLiveliness; appearance of life.

    […] the tiranny of her ſorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.

  4. 4

    obsoletoThe course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.

    wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful & he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child & his name is sir Ector & he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys

Etimologia

From Middle English liflode, from Old English līflād (“course of life, conduct”), from līf (“life”) + lād (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.

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