单词 | holy roller |
释义 | > as lemmasHoly Roller Holy Roller n. colloquial a member of a religious group characterized by frenzied excitement or trances. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > convulsionism > [noun] > person > rolling Holy Roller1842 roller1880 1842 Southern Q. Rev. (New Orleans) I. 400 It is a new species of religion, which sprang up..contemporaneously with the enthusiasm of the ‘Holy Rollers’. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 300 When the Holy Spirit seized them..the Holy Rollers..rolled over and over on the floor. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna v. 65 You'd make a good Methodist of the Holy Roller variety. 1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour iv. 34 The Baptists and other Evangelical groups were rather similar in 1850 to the Pentecostalists of today, and there are signs that the present Holy Rollers are becoming assimilated. 1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands x. 198 A part-time preacher who was able to make his Holy Roller congregation talk in strange tongues. 1969 New Yorker 14 June 78/2 They sound like fire-and-brimstone preachers in Holy Roller churches. < as lemmas |
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