| 单词 | crack of doom |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrack of doom 6. The last or great Judgement at the end of the world; also, a pictorial representation of this. archaic. (Now chiefly in crack of doom.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement doomc1200 great, last, general inquestc1315 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 69 Þenche we ure giltes er þe dom cume. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 97 He shall for the dome finall Yef his answere. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) x. 114 The Doom schalle ben on Estre Day, suche tyme as our Lord aroos. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 180/1 I speke of Christes..comming to the dreadfull dome. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 133 What will the Line stretch out to' th' cracke of Doome ? View more context for this quotation a1800 W. Cowper Heroism 11 On a day, like that of the last doom. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation (1852) ix. 204 When all nations shall behold Him at the crack of doom. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 323 The..hobgoblins of mediæval dooms. < as lemmas |
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