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单词 defender of the faith
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defender of the (also †our) faith
defender of the (also †our) faith [after post-classical Latin Defensor Fidei, title bestowed on Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521 (from 1523 in British sources)] : a title conferred on Henry VIII by Pope Leo X as a reward for writing against Luther, recognized by Parliament as an official title of the English monarch in 1544, and borne by all subsequent sovereigns. Cf. defensor n. 1.
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1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xxxviijv One is called most christian kinge; a nother defender of the fayth.
1539 Act 31 Henry VIII c. 5 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 721 Henrie the Eight by the grace of God Kinge of Englonde and of Fraunce Defendor of the faithe.
1558 Queen Elizabeth I in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. i. 2 Elizabeth, by the grace of God..defendour of the faith.
1623 Ld. Herbert Let. 31 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 165 Your Sacred Majestie..beeinge Defender of our Faithe.
1670 D. Lloyd State-worthies (ed. 2) 850 In this [sc. Religion] you need not be a Monitor to your gracious Master the King; the chiefest of his Imperial Titles, is, to be The Defender of the Faith; and his learning is eminent.
1722 Weekly Jrnl. 28 July 2298/1 It was the same good Providence, who gave us such a King as justly merits the Title of Defender of the Faith.
1773 Weekly Mag. 25 Feb. 265/2 The title, defender of the faith was an antient appellation given to the kings of England.
1847 T. Miller Pictures of Country Life 113 Vessels..red with the wine, shed at many a midnight revel, by the Defender of the Faith, and woman-murdering king.
1868 Reynolds's Newspaper 19 Apr. 1/1 The first Defender of the Faith was Henry the Eighth.
1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 151 The British sovereign still employs the title ‘Defender of the Faith’ in forms of ratification.
1960 K. C. Wheare Constit. Struct. Commonw. vii. 168 In Moslem Pakistan and Buddhist Ceylon the title Defender of the Faith should be omitted as inapplicable.
2015 E. Platt Brit. & Bestandstwisten 18 He [sc. James VI and I] believed it was his duty as ‘Defender of the Faith’ to uphold orthodox beliefs.
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