单词 | compunct |
释义 | † compunctadj. Obsolete. a. ‘Pricked’ in heart or conscience by consciousness of wrongdoing; affected with compunction. (Usually construed as a participle.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [adjective] > penitent or contrite rueingOE repentantc1230 contritea1340 penitent1341 compunctc1384 repentingc1405 compuncteda1425 contrited1483 repentful1561 repentable1571 relenting1576 remorsed1579 remorseful1590 repent1598 remording1614 compunctiousa1616 repentive1620 compunctionate1681 resipiscent1872 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds ii. 37 These thingis herd, thei weren compunct in herte. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 146 He..was gretely compuncte and went fra þam and did þam na disese. c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1219 He was conpuncte entierly. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Qiii With hert contrite, compunct, and sorowfull. 1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Ljv David compunt and stryken with herty repentaunce. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts ii. 37 Hearing these things they were compuncte in harte. 1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 413 To be Compunct, and not Confesse, is to bleed inwardly. b. In the Wyclifite version, to be compunct renders the Latin passive compungi, Greek κατανύσσεσθαι, in certain passages, where the Hebrew has forms of dāmam to be dumb or silent. So in Hampole's Comm. on Psalms. ΚΠ 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms iv. 5 For the thingis whiche ȝe seien in ȝoure hertis, and in ȝoure beddis, be ȝe compunct [dōmmû, κατανύγητε, compungimini; 1382 haue ȝee compunccioun; Hampole, Þat ȝe say in ȝoure hertis and in ȝoure dennes ere stungen; Coverdale, remembre youre selues; Douay be sorie for; Geneva and 1611 be still]. 1388 J. Wyclif Ps. xxix (xxx). 13: xxxiv (xxxv). 16. c1430 tr. Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ i. xx As it is writen, ‘Be ye compuncte in your pryue couches’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.c1384 |
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