doughter

Middle English edit

doughter (plural doughters or doughtren or deghter or (rare) doughter or (rare) deghteres or (rare) dehtren, genitive doughter or doughters)

One's daughter; one's female direct progeny.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 10:35, page 4v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  foꝛ I cam to departe a man aȝenes his fadir .· ⁊ þe douȝtir aȝenes hir modir · ⁊ þe ſones wijf aȝenes þe hoſebondis modir
  Because I came to divide a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against [her] mother-in-law.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 442-444:
  Nat longe tyme after that this Grisild
  Was wedded, she a doughter hath y-bore,
  Al had hir lever have born a knave child.
  Not long time after this Griselda
  Was married, she has borne a daughter,
  Although she would rather have given birth to a male child.
One of one's female inheritors (also used metaphorically in religion)
A woman who lives in or inhabits a certain nation.
A religious woman, especially one who has given herself to the monastic lifestyle.
A habit or behaviour viewed as one of the mental progeny of someone or something.
A term of friendship used when talking to a woman.

“doughter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.