| 单词 | experience-meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexperience-meeting b. In religious use: A state of mind or feeling forming part of the inner religious life; the mental history (of a person) with regard to religious emotion. Also attributive, esp. in experience-meeting, a meeting (e.g. a Methodist class meeting or love-feast) held for the recital of religious experiences. ΚΠ 1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 49 Testified unto by the Experience of them that truely believe. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 47 (margin) A Repetition of Christiana's Experience . View more context for this quotation 1746 J. Edwards Treat. Relig. Affections ii. 45 Those Experiences which are agreable to the Word of God, are right. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. 256 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist..the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms [etc.]. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 244 Ought the Christian controversialist to avail himself, in this question, of the experience argument? 1857 S. G. Goodrich Recoll. Lifetime I. 214 [At these meetings] there was praying, and exhorting, and telling experiences, and singing..sentimental religious hymns. < as lemmas |
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