Meanings
noundaughtren pl
- archaicpluralplural of daughter
The twoe women that bare vp this pot, are pride, and lust of flesh, that be cleped, in holie writ, ‘the twey daughtren of the water-leche, crying, bring, bring.’
1563: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church, page 298 (1844 republication)
Origin
- Middle Englishdoughtren
- Englishdaughtren
From Middle English doughtren; equivalent to daughter + -en (plural ending).
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