| 单词 | communion of saints |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommunion of saints P1. communion of saints and variants: the fellowship or unity of all Christians, both alive and dead (cf. saint n. 3a); (also occasionally) the fellowship of Christians belonging to a particular church or denomination.An earlier term was communing of saints: see communing n. 1. ΚΠ c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 44 He schulde haue singulere deuocion in the feithful holi chirche and in the communyon of seintes. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 8 The communion of seyntis now for vs preith. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxviiiv The seconde [poynte] is, that there is communyon of sayntes. 1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 30 Shun thou henceforward the Communion of Saints, hauing thus spet on a Challice which is the cup of life. 1715 C. Owen Plain-dealing i. 7 Tho' we locally separate, yet we hold the same Communion of Saints, as the Creed requires. 1773 J. Wesley Let. 9 May (1931) VI. 26 It has in all ages been allowed that the communion of saints extends to those in paradise as well as those upon earth. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. viii. 188 ‘He was tortured and hanged.’ ‘He is with the communion of saints,’ said the Religious. 1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 125 The things of friends are in common. Where does this find its exhaustive fulfilment, but in the Communion of Saints? 1913 Times 4 Oct. 7/4 Christianity..learnt how to express that brotherhood which transcended all race divisions in its doctrine of the communion of saints. 1946 S. Hook Educ. for Mod. Man (1947) v. 71 The communion of saints is a great and inspiring assemblage, but it has only one possible hall of meeting, and that is, the present. 1995 Catholic Insight Apr. 3/3 Souls in purgatory..are united, as the Vatican Council teaches, with the pilgrim Church in the Communion of Saints. < as lemmas |
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