单词 | in supplication |
释义 | > as lemmasin supplication a. The action of addressing a solemn request to God (or a god); prayer. Frequently in in supplication, to make supplication. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory litany?c1225 supplication?c1400 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. iii. l. 4594 Þis is oonly þe manere, þat is to seyen hope and prayeres, for whiche it semeþ þat [men] mowen speken wiþ god, and by resoun of supplicacioun ben conioigned to þilk clernesse. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts i. 14 These all continued with one acorde in prayer and supplicacion. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi The sayd Moyses..made supplicacion to god. 1561 H. Becher tr. Vocation & Callyng all Nations i. iv. sig. Dviii The whiche lawe of supplication and praier, the deuocion of all priestes, and of all faythfull men doth..agreably holde. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. ii. 263 Making supplication..unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices. 1682 J. Owen Disc. Work Holy Spirit vii. 148 This Utterance is a Gift of the Holy Ghost, so also is Prayer as to the manner of the performance of it by words in Supplication. 1750 Universal Mag. Oct. 182/2 Great God of mercy! while I bend In supplication to thy throne, Incline thine ear. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 261 Making supplication to St. John, in a fragment of simple melody, or Canto fermo. 1832 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 21 Feb. He stood in the rear end of his frail bark, his hands clasped in supplication. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 697 At last it seemed that heaven had been stormed by the violence of supplication: the truth came out, and many lies with it. 1892 G. M. Fenn New Mistress (new ed.) xiii. 82 When he read prayers morning and evening it seemed to him that he was making supplication for that face alone. 1915 J. M. Campbell Place of Prayer in Christian Relig. v. i. 246 With every form and variety of prayer and supplication. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage v. 189/1 The Sioux and other Plains peoples turned in supplication to the Great Spirit. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 188 A hardening and pressing he now knew as sexual, a feeling that twenty years distant, kneeling in supplication, still stirred him physically. < as lemmas |
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