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单词 land of saints
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(is)land of saints
a. Ecclesiastical. One of those persons who are formally recognized by the Church as having by their exceptional holiness of life attained an exalted station in heaven, and as being entitled in an eminent degree to the veneration of the faithful; a canonized person. In Pre-Reformation use, the term implies that the persons so designated may be lawfully addressed in prayer for their intercession with God, and that miracles have been wrought through their aid after death. Also, a monk or anchorite, esp. in (is)land of saints, Ireland. †to seek, visit a saint: to pay one's devotions at his shrine. (Cf. hallow n.1 2.)
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > the dead in heaven
sainta1300
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun]
hallowa885
sainta1300
apostlea1400
anointed1528
saintya1529
Holy One1535
holy1548
Mar1622
society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [noun]
monkeOE
brotherOE
claustermanc1175
man (woman, etc.) of religiona1200
cloister-monkc1325
friarc1330
son1416
religion manc1475
pater1481
abbey man1483
scapularc1540
monach?c1550
cloister-man1581
monastic1632
cowlist1637
religieux?a1649
religioso1708
saint1888
society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun]
anchorOE
eremitec1200
recluse?c1225
hermitc1275
solitary1435
anchoritea1450
inclusec1460
anchorist1581
cremitt1624
mandrite1844
saint1888
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun]
Western Isle1557
shamrockshire1689
Teagueland1689
Wolfland1692
Green Island1797
Green Isle1812
the (old) sod1812
Paddyland1828
(is)land of saints1888
c1000 Ælfric in Sweet A.-S. Reader (1894) 85 God geswutelode þæt he halig sanct wæs swa þæt heofonlic leoht of þæt geteld astreht stod up to heofonum.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 979 He wæs on life eorðlic cing, he is nu æfter deaðe heofonlic sanct.]
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28604 To godd i merci cri..And all seyntes of heuen sere.a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 66 Preye we alle to oure leuedy, ant to þe sontes þat woneþ hire by.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 69 (118) In a cave To bidde, and rede on holy seyntes lyves.c1420 Anturs of Arth. xvii I salle garre seke sayntes for thi sake.1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 6287 For seyntys wych that suffrede so, I wot ryht wel that they be go To paradys.a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 276 We pray to all the sanctis of hewin, That ar abuif the sternis sewin.1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Catech. in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 206 This præsent Kalendar quhairin is comprehendit the Sanctes and martyres vith the tyme of thair death or suffering.1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome xxi, in Recoll. Treat. 883 Neither will we onely glorifie God in his Saints..but we will magnifie the Saints..for their excellent graces.1726 Boys Expos. 39 Art. 146 Pardons or Indulgences, which are promis'd to those that visit such a Saint or Chapel.1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 375 The castle of St. Elmo, or St. Eramo, so called from a church dedicated to that Saint.1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church xii. 134 A considerable number of churches are called after the names of the primitive saints of our island.1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter iv. 323 Technically, to make a saint, there should be an act of pontifical jurisdiction.1888 G. K. Chesterton Ballad White Horse v. 102 His men were all as thin as saints.1888 G. K. Chesterton Ballad White Horse v. 103 Though Ireland be but a land of saints, and Wales a land of thieves.1904 C. Walsh in J. McCarthy Irish Lit. I. p. xvii Her nationality and her national spirit have been recognized during the last twenty years as they never were since the days when Ireland was the ‘island of saints and scholars’, the land of intellectual light and leading in Europe.1938 W. B. Yeats New Poems 13 My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. ‘This Land of Saints’ and then..‘Of plaster Saints’.1964 Welsh Hist. Rev. 2 122 The migrations of the ‘saints’ from Britain can be dated almost exclusively to the sixth century.1964 Welsh Hist. Rev. 2 123 We can picture these early British ‘saints’ (monks) seeking solitary places at home and abroad in which to serve God.1979 Guardian 1 Oct. 2/8 It was the Pope's arrival at Dublin Airport..which truly set the distinctive character of this personal pilgrimage to his ‘island of saints’.Proverb.1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cvv These adages myght than haue bene founde true, Suche saynt, suche shryne, suche bere, suche bottell.
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