| 释义 |
sacredly, adv.|ˈseɪkrɪdlɪ|
[-ly2.]
1. With religious or strict care; inviolably; with rigid attention to the truth.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. viii. (1634) 26 The originall booke [of the Law] itselfe was appointed to be sacredly kept in the Temple. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. i. 130 Authors..kept sacredly and inviolably in certain Archives. 1706Hearne Collect. 14 Jan. (O.H.S.) I. 163 Observing these Oaths..sacredly. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos ix. 112 The sealing further implied that its contents were sacredly locked and concealed from public gaze.
2. In a sacred or religious manner.
1694Pomfret On Death Q. Mary 137 Next mighty Pan, was her illustrious Lord, His high Vicegerent, sacredly ador'd. 1884Chr. Commw. 20 Mar. 535/2 [Paul's] only offering was the sum total of his Gentile converts, whom he sacredly and joyfully offered unto God. |