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heman
English
Noun
heman
- Misspelling of he-man.
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leman
English
Alternative forms
- leaman
- lemman (13th–17th centuries)
- lemon (15th–16th centuries)
Etymology
From Middle English lemman, variant of leofman, from Old English *l?ofmann ("lover; sweetheart"; attested as a personal name), equivalent to lief +? man ("beloved person").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?m?n/, /?li?m?n/
- Rhymes: -?m?n
Noun
leman (plural lemans)
- (archaic) One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring
Her, whom he waking euermore did weene,
To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring
On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king,
Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound […].
- Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- The prisoner I speak of is better booty—a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- (often negative) A paramour.
- In modern English this might read:
There really is very little difference between a wife of honourable rank if she is faithless in how she deals with her body,
and a penniless woman without rank, except that if they both behave badly then, because of the gentlewoman's rank,
people call her his lady love, but call the poor woman his slut or his leman. - 1915, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates: The Fisherman and his Soul:
- '...They are lost, I tell thee, they are lost. For them there is no heaven nor hell, and in neither shall they praise God’s name.’
‘Father,’ cried the young Fisherman, ‘thou knowest not what thou sayest. Once in my net I snared the daughter of a King. She is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For her body I would give my soul, and for her love I would surrender heaven. Tell me what I ask of thee, and let me go in peace.’
‘Away! Away!’ cried the Priest: ‘thy leman is lost, and thou shalt be lost with her.’
And he gave him no blessing, but drove him from his door.
- '...They are lost, I tell thee, they are lost. For them there is no heaven nor hell, and in neither shall they praise God’s name.’
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
- And he sent the news to William the Lyon, sitting drinking the wine and fondling his bonny lemans in Edinburgh Town, and William made him the Knight of Kinraddie […].
- In modern English this might read:
Anagrams
- Elman, Melan, lamen, nelma
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