grand-daughter

See also: granddaughter

English

Noun

grand-daughter (plural grand-daughters)

1. Dated form of granddaughter.
   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 92:

     Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father, […]

   • 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight:

     She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.

   • 1892, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Sweater”, in Children of the Ghetto […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I (The Children of the Ghetto), page 34:

     The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter’s head.

   • 1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79:

     Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.

   • 1969, Arthur Waley, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D.‎, London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

     About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.

   • 1993, Nuruddin Farah, Gifts, Arcade Publishing, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71:

     My grand-daughter goes to the same school as your twin-daughter, so that is how I know you. Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name — Marilyn.

   • 2002, Susan Child, “[Parliament and the Constitution] House of Lords Reform”, in Politico’s Guide to Parliament, 2nd edition, London: Politico’s Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:

     On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.