Meaning of grand-mother | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

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

“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.”

“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; […]”

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