grand-mother

English

Noun

grand-mother (plural grand-mothers)

1. Obsolete form of grandmother.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], pages 2–3:

     I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.

   • 1766, James Fordyce, “On Female Reserve”, in Sermons to Young Women, 6th edition, volume I, London: […] D. Payne, page 60:

     But ah, how great would be their aſtoniſhment and horror, when informed, that numbers of thoſe young perſons, whoſe behaviour was ſo unbecoming, had not been taught by their mothers, their grand-mothers, or any female friend in the world, one ſolid lesson of wiſdom, frugality, or amiable reſerve.

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 254–255:

     It was but three days; and being only a grand-mother, and all happening two hundred miles off, I think there would have been no great harm, and it was suggested, I know; […]