daughtren
English
Etymology
From Middle English doughtren; equivalent to daughter + -en (plural ending).
Noun
daughtren pl
- (archaic) plural of daughter
- 1563: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church, page 298 (1844 republication)
- 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)
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