| 单词 | empress of hell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEmpress of Hell 2. Any female whose authority is comparable to that of an empress; a female who exercises supreme or absolute power; spec. the Virgin Mary (frequently as Empress of Heaven, Empress of Hell, etc.). Also: a particularly fine and honourable woman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > female empressc1350 tyranness1590 autocratrix1747 autocratrice1758 autocratress1763 tyrantess1890 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 115 (MED) Þorȝ-out helle geþ here power, Ase he hys emperysse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20801 (MED) Of heuen and erth..scho es quene, Bath imperice and heind leuedi. a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) l. 1212 (MED) Hou I haue made hir þin hertes emperesse. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xix. 226 Thi moder is of helle emprise. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 Thus toe Venus turning spake thee Saturnical empresse [sc. Juno, daughter of Saturn]. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 40 Harke Tamora the Empresse of my soule. View more context for this quotation 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. D3v Now ile boast that I haue found, An Angell vpon earth: she shalbe cround The empresse of all women. 1658 A. Cokayne Chain of Golden Poems 45 You are my Empress; under your fair hand Send me what Destiny you will command. 1716 M. Hole Pract. Disc. Liturgy Church of Eng. IV. xviii. 140 I know some have carry'd this matter too high,..worshipping her [sc. the Virgin Mary] as a Goddess, as the Queen of Angels, and the Empress of Heaven. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 273 Thus while she spoke, in swarms hell's Empress brings Daughters and wives of heroes and of kings. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 3 The lady Abbess..seemed the Empress of the scene. 1827 Amer. Masonic Rec. 14 Apr. 83/1 To the Empress of Heaven, mother of the eternal world, the leading star of all Spain,..the most holy Mary. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen v. 82 Yonder Empress..throned at the window of that humblest mud cottage. 1852 T. Carlyle Let. 7 May (1999) 108 Poor Margaret [Fuller]... Such a predetermination to eat this big universe as her oyster or her egg, and to be absolute empress of all height and glory in it that her heart could conceive. 1923 J. S. Kennard Friar in Fiction 177 She [sc. Venus] is no more empress of earth, and sea, and sky. 1995 R. V. Gerard Lady from Atlantis (ed. 2) 141 Now she's legally my wife, but in reality, she's my empress and guardian. Need I say more? 2006 J. Miller Chinese Relig. in Contemp. Societies x. 246 The Empress of Heaven is popularly venerated in Taiwan as Mazu, an affectionate kinship term denoting ‘Granny’. < as lemmas |
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