changeling
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changeling englanniksi
In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer Q1)
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(quote-book), formerly Earl of Mulgrave|title=An Essay on Poetry|location=London|publisher=(...) H. Hills,(nb...)|year=1709|page=15|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP17|oclc=518037721|passage=Juſt as a ''Changeling'' ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe ''Gigantick'' Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.
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A person or object (especially when regarded as inferior) secretly exchanged for something else.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) James Knapton,(nb...); and sold by (w),(nb...)|year=1717|page=15|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NtbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA15|oclc=642291597|passage=When I firſt read Mr. ''Walker''’s Circular Letter to the ''Arch-deacons'', I fancied he intended to give us an Account of thoſe worthy Men, ... But after about ten Years going with this Work, and that the Time of its Birth was come, I ſoon found it to be a perfect Changeling. Inſtead of what I expected it to be, I ſaw a huge Heap of the moſt Heterogeneous Characters, ... a great many of them much more deſerving to have their Names blotted out, than their Memory to be preſerved.
An infant secretly exchanged with another infant deliberately or by mistake; a swapling.
An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.
A person apt to change their loyalty or thinking; a waverer.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. Wilkie, ...|year=1760|section=act II, scene vi|page=28|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwg5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA28|oclc=1167638464|passage=(smallcaps) ... If you will lodge with me in Eaſtcheap, you ſhall ſee the thouſand pound fairly ſpent in ſack: you ſhall ſhare with me to the utmoſt farthing. But for dry reſtitution, I have not been accustom'd to it of many years. You would not have me a changeling at this time of day, I hope, Maſter Shallow. / (smallcaps) Changeling! no, Sir John, thou art no changeling; but, depend on it, I will not put up with this wrong. ... I will have my money; depend on't I will have my money.
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
(quote-book)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA14|location=London|publisher=(...) Court Press for (w),(nb...)|year=1622|oclc=1121309655|passage=They alſo obſerue Lunaticks and changelings, and the Coniurer writeth downe their ſayings in a booke, groueling on the ground, as if he whiſperd to the Deuill to tell him the truth, and ſo expoundeth the letter, as it were by inſpiration.
(RQ:Dryden Tyrannick Love)
(quote-book)|title=Praise of Folly|The Praise of Folly. Made English from the Latin of Erasmus.(nb...)|edition=6th|location=London|publisher=(...) Dodsley|Robert Dodsley,(nb...)|year=1740|page=59|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzYCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59|oclc=642422926|passage=Can there be any one Sort of Men that enjoy themſelves better than thoſe which we call Idiots, Changelings, Fools, and Naturals? It may perhaps ſound harſh, but upon due Conſideration it will be found abundantly true, that theſe Perſons in all Circumſtances fare beſt, and live moſt comfortably: ...
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) (w), and sold by William Taylor(nb...)|year=1719|page=107|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA107|oclc=1156437828|passage=Away thou changeling motley humouriſt, / Leave me, and in this ſtanding wooden cheſt, / Conſorted with theſe few books, let me lye / In priſon, and here be coffin'd, when I dye.|footer=In Donne’s ''Poems'' (1st edition, 1633), page 325, the word ''fondling'' is used instead of ''changeling''.