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单词 great day
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Great Dayn.

Brit. /ˌɡreɪt ˈdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪt ˈdeɪ/
Forms: see great adj., n., adv., and int. and day n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: great adj., day n.
Etymology: < great adj. + day n., in sense 1 after post-classical Latin dies magnus (Vulgate).In Great Day of the Lord at sense 1 after post-classical Latin dies Domini magnus (Vulgate). In Great Day of Wrath at sense 1 after post-classical Latin dies magnus irae (Vulgate).
Chiefly Christian Church.
1. With the. The Day of Judgement. More fully Great Day of Judgement, Great Day of the Lord, Great Day of Wrath, and variants.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > double, important
double feast?c1225
Great Dayc1350
red-letter day1663
doublec1690
feria1763
Greater Feria1763
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > day of judgement
last dayc1275
day of doom1340
Great Dayc1350
the last time?1505
day of reckoning1547
accounting day1549
doomsday1578
reckoning day1581
day of accounting1666
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse
world's endeOE
dayOE
doomsdayc975
world-endOE
'pocalypseOE
last dayc1275
judgementa1325
assize1340
Great Dayc1350
accounta1400
day of retributiona1400
latter day1533
Judgement Day1544
audit1548
after-reckoning1567
revelation-day1654
Fifth monarchy1655
long account1665
account day1671
kingdom come1858
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
eschaton1935
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Week > [noun] > Sunday in
EastereOE
Easter DayOE
Easter SundayOE
pasch dayc1175
resurrectionc1300
Great Dayc1350
pace daya1425
God's Sundaya1500
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 51 (MED) Þe grete day of wraþþe [L. dies magnus irae] is comen, & who may stonde?
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zeph. i. 15 Niȝ is the grete day of the Lord [L. dies Domini magnus].
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 6100 (MED) Men may calle þat day þe grete day of delyveraunce.
a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 12 [God] schalle iuge you with equitee and right at the grete day [a1460 anon tr. grete daye of iugemente].
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aiiv What schall be layed agaynst you at the great daye of the Lord.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. N4 At the gret day of the Lord.
1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 187 In the great Day, wherein the Secrets of all Hearts shall be laid open.
1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) V. iii. 54 Such sinners are reserved for the judgement of the great day.
1815 E. Boudinot Second Advent 344 The children of God..will be thus timely forwarned [sic] and comforted in the great day of wrath.
1844 Universalist Union 14 Dec. 66/2 I wish you to observe that this was called the great day of the Lord, and is thus described by the prophet: ‘The great day of the Lord is near..the mighty man shall cry bitterly.’
1893 J. Hawthorne Confess. Convict in L. E. Sullivan Bandits & Bibles (2003) 170 I wonder if Don Juan M.C. ever stops to realize that he must render an account at the Great Day, when mundane accounts must be balanced justly.
1907 W. Rauschenbusch Christianity & Social Crisis vii. 422 Generations yet unborn will mark this as that great day of the Lord for which the ages waited.
1922 New Republic 12 Apr. 24/2 The two or three decades of immortality of the Hazard and the Twig will not help them in that great day of judgement.
1980 H. Carpenter in K. Thomas Founders of Faith (1989) vii. 282 Paul, at least at first, expected that the ‘great Day’ would happen in his own lifetime.
2006 R. Bradbury It's End of World as we know It xi. 152 The great day of wrath is come. Anarchy ensues as men try to escape from the wrath of God.
2. A very important feast day or (less commonly) day of fasting; spec. Easter Sunday.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast-day
feast dayc1300
Great Dayc1475
c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 81 (MED) The Kinges plate is esteemed at a greete daye of estate 1 lb. dim', and other whiles but 1 lb.
a1500 Rule for serving Lord in R. W. Chambers 15th-cent. Courtesy Bk. (1914) 13 (MED) Then shall þe sewer, yf it be in a grete day, and a durmant lye vnder þe clothe, let þe surnape with þe towell Rynne vppon the durmant.
1618 L. Andrewes Serm. Easter Day 49 You shall finde the Councell of Ancyra (elder then that of Nice) order, the censures should determine all, endure no longer then the Great Day (so in their common speech they termed Easter) and then, all to be restored.
1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 39 On great days a little fish, or milk, if it is not a fast.
1759 tr. J. Æ. van Egmont & J. Heyman Trav. through Europe, Asia Minor I. xx. 324 On Easter sunday we saw those ceremonies which distinguish that great day in all catholick countries.
1812 J. Brady Clavis calendaria I. 285 Easter Sunday was..antiently called the Great Day, and the Feast of Feasts.
a1855 Count Wielhorsky tr. A. Nikitin Trav. 22 in R. H. Major India in 15th Cent. (1857) Four great Lent fastings and four great days (Easter days) have already passed by, but I..do not know which is the great day, or when is Lent.
1913 A. Fortescue Lesser Eastern Churches i. v. 148 The chief feast is, of course, Easter... The Epiphany (January 6) is also a great day; it is the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord.
1959 A. F. Wright Buddhism in Chinese Hist. iv. 72 In such temples the great days were the festivals of the Buddhist year, notably the Buddha's birthday and the Feast of All Souls.
2011 J. R. Bisagno Pastor's Handbk. vii. cviii. 320 Easter week services may precede the great day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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