单词 | another world |
释义 | > as lemmasanother world b. Preceded by adjectives designating a world other than that of earth (chiefly in Judaeo-Christian contexts); spec. the world of the afterlife of the blessed; heaven. Frequently in another world, a better world, and similar expressions.next, other world: see the first word. Cf. also afterworld n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > future state other worldOE worldOE everlastingnessa1382 futurity1741 other sidea1822 happy hunting-ground(s)1826 Silent Land1826 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 32 Ne byð hyt hym forgyfen, ne on þisse worulde ne on þære toweardan [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. nether in this world, ne in the tother, 1526 Tyndale nether in this worlde, nether in the worlde to come; L. neque in hoc saeculo, neque in futuro]. OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 297 Þonne se man bið lofgeorn..& deð for gylpe gif he hwæt dælan wyle, & bið se hlisa his edlean þære dæde, & hys wite andbidað on þære toweardan worulde [lOE Vesp. D.xiv þære towearden weordle]. OE Ælfric Homily (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 559 Lytel þing is geteald þises lifes ryne wið ða ecan worulde, þe ne wurð na geendod. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 135 (MED) On ðere eche weorlde he scal hafon ðer of his mede. ?1480 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophres (Caxton) (new ed.) lf. 62v Sacdarge saith that the werkes of this vnto another world ben guided by two thingis. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxiii. f. xxxv/1 Ye nexte day assone as it was day lyght: ye shulde haue sene tentes taken downe, charyotes charged, & people remoue so thycke, that a man wold haue thought to haue sene a newe worlde. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1142 There is one..that helpeth to convey the soules of such as have ended their life, from hence into another world. 1715 I. Mather Several Serm. (title page) When Godly Men dye, Angels carry their Souls to another and a better World. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 170 He..Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 1809 W. Magee Disc. Atonem. & Sacrifice (1816) II. 107 The appellation, ‘mighty dead’,..becomes applicable to all the inhabitants of the invisible world. 1817 P. B. Shelley Mont Blanc iii, in Hist. Six Weeks' Tour 178 Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber. 1846 Ld. Tennyson Golden Year in Poems (ed. 4) II. 90 'Tis like the second world to us that live. 1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. viii. 263 A night's reflection has convinced me that there is no hell for these women [sc. prostitutes] in another world. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 30/2 Its promise of another world has made it easier for many good Christians..to neglect the improvement of this one. 2003 J. Stockwin Seaflower (2004) vi. 109 Her mother long departed for a better world. < as lemmas |
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