Citations:redamancy
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English citations of redamancy
(mentions which are early attestations)
[edit]- 1717, Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, explaining the difficult terms:
- Redamancy -mation, 1. a loving them that love us.
- 1864, Thomas Edwards, An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary, page 350:
- Redamancy, red-ā-man'-sī, s. y weithred o adgaru; adgariad
(the mention which may have popularised the word)
[edit]- 2008, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (Perigee Books):
- Redamancy (n.) The act of loving in return. Redamancy is distinguished from most of the other words about love in that it is one of the few that specifies reciprocity.
Loving in return
[edit]- 2011, David P. Grzan,Don Quixote's Impossible Dream: To Every Man His Dulcinea, to Every Woman Her Don Quixote, page 51:
- Withal, my capital love is replenished by the inexhaustible Quarry of her love, enriching my love's quarry for her, And so on interchanging our redamancies […]
- 2012, Darrell Drake, Everautumn →ISBN, page 273:
- They did not like being bested, but it was precisely his obstinate redamancy that kept them going in all its forms.
- 2014, Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day, Author House →ISBN, page 393
- It was redamancy. It was heaven. It was peace. It was more than he could have ever hoped for or wanted.