单词 | gethsemane |
释义 | Gethsemanen. 1. A scene of spiritual or mental anguish; an instance of such anguish. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a scene of Gethsemane1913 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > spiritual anguish Gethsemane1913 1832 S. H. Whitman in C. Fiske Bates Cambr. Bk. Poetry & Song 857/1 The flowers That pressed around thy feet seemed but to bloom In lone Gethsemanes, through starless hours. 1838 13th Ann. Rep. Amer. Unitarian Assoc. 29 His faith was ever his blessing and strength... In the Gethsemane of his sufferings it led him to the ministering angel. 1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff xxix. 412 Who can tell... What bloody sweat came from that poor soul in her hopeless Gethsemane, suffering selfishly, thanklessly, for her own sins, and not generously, supportably, for the sins of others! 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 16 And I at the foot of her cross did suffer My own gethsemane. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 41 See it [sc. an almond tree] come forth in blossom..Sweating his drops of blood through the long-nighted Gethsemane Into blossom. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 159 I can be brave in the day, but nights are my Gethsemane. 2. A representation in painting or sculpture of Jesus's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36–46, Mark 14:32–42). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject majestyc1450 the Visitation (of our Lady)1498 Our Lady Piety1533 annunciation1556 nativity1646 Pietàc1660 noli me tangerea1684 virgina1684 glory1708 flagellation1728 scourging1757 Mater Dolorosa1800 crucifixion1841 hortus conclusus1852 Hodegetria1880 Gethsemane1901 anastasis1995 1859 Ecclesiologist Feb. 3 Outside the church [of St. Emmeran in Mainz], at its north-eastern end, is a Gethsemane. Our Lord kneeling among rock-work, is offered a chalice by an angel. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 26 July 2/1 A great, sad, German-looking Gethsemane, its big white figures shining mysteriously behind a grating. 1913 Internat. Studio 48 81/1 Among his notable achievements is a Gethsemane, in the ‘Monumentale di Milano’, the famous cemetery of the city. 1958 C. de Dood tr. V. van Gogh Let. 10 Sept. 1888 in Compl. Lett. III. 211 When Eug. Delacroix did a ‘Gethsemane’, he had gone firsthand to see what an olive grove was. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832 |
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