释义 |
self-noughting Also -naughting. [self- 1 b.] Depreciation or effacement of oneself, as manifested in the lives of saints and mystics. (Probably derived by E. Underhill from Hilton's Scale of Perfection: see quot. a 1400 s.v. noughting vbl. n.)
1911E. Underhill Mysticism ix. 477 The ‘self-naughting’ or ‘purification of the will’, which here takes place, is the struggle to resolve that disharmony. 1937Mind XLVI. 91 We remember what has been written by writers such as those cited above about self-surrender, submission and self-noughting or annihilation. 1959Month Dec. 331 This is the true self-noughting, to know oneself incapable of any good. 1976H. A. Williams Tensions v. 89 Through this discovery of our true identity in God and the self-naughting which inevitably accompanies it, we become truly ourselves. |