intime
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Etymology edit
From Latin intimus (“innermost”) perhaps via French intime. Compare intimate (adjective).
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intime (comparative more intime, superlative most intime)
- (obsolete) inward; internal; intimate
- a. 1665, Sir Kenelm Digby, Of bodies and of mans soul to discover the immortality:
- As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and requires an intime application of the agents, water hath the principality and excess over earth.
- 1988 April 9, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Urban Gay Camp and Croon”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
- What is it about gay men that they're so often linked with musical revue in a cabaret milieu? Is it the intimate ambience — more intime, more revealing — than larger stage productions? Is there more room for specialized acts that need not draw a larger (read straighter) crowd?
References edit
“intime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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intime
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.
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intime (plural intimes)
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Further reading edit
- “intime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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intime
- inflection of intim:
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intime
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intime
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- “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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intime
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intime
- inflection of intimar:
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intime
- inflection of intimar: