| 单词 | anxious bench |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanxious bench anxious bench n. U.S. Christian Church (now chiefly historical) = anxious seat n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance penitent form1563 repenting stool1567 stool of repentance1581 place of repentance1582 repentance stool1591 repentance seat1771 cutty-stoola1774 Mercy seat1818 anxious seat1827 anxious bench1832 mourner's bench1834 mourner's seat1845 moaner's bench1929 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. vii. 111 The poor creatures..seated themselves on the ‘anxious benches’. 1906 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Nov. 1 The entire diplomatic corps at Havana is..on the ‘anxious bench’. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 16/4 The new evangelism meant cries and groans and fervent praying, long, spontaneous preaching, and even an ‘Anxious Bench’. < as lemmas |
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