单词 | a heart and a heart |
释义 | > as lemmasa heart and a heart (a) a heart and a heart [ultimately after Hebrew lēḇ wa-lēḇ] : a propensity for duplicity or insincerity. †in heart and heart [after post-classical Latin in corde et corde (Vulgate), itself after Hebrew bĕ-lēḇ wa-lēḇ (e.g. in the passage translated in quots. eOE, a1382)] : duplicitously, insincerely (obsolete). Cf. double heart n. at double adj.1 and adv. Compounds 1. Now rare.Chiefly in or after biblical use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adverb] > with duplicity in heart and hearteOE doublyc1430 double1599 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > double-dealing, duplicity doublenessc1374 frouncec1374 duplicityc1430 double-heartedness1571 a heart and a heart1583 two hearts1594 ambidextry1611 ambidexterity1755 double-facedness1867 two-facedness1882 double-handedness1883 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xi. 2 (3) Labia dolosa in corde et corde locuti sunt mala : welure faecne in heortan & heortan spreocende sindun ða yflan. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xi. 3 Ther treccherous lippis in herte and herte speeken. 1583 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. (1658) 137 God doth abhor a Heart and a Heart, and his soule detesteth a double minded Man. 1614 N. Byfield Signes vii. 80 Whether thou dost serue God with thy whole heart: not hauing a heart and a heart, either waiuering or deuided? 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 82 A heart and a heart God cannot abide. 1703 J. Clark Spiritual-merchant iv. 154 There are many double minded men, who have a heart and a heart. a1762 W. McEwen Sel. Set Ess. (1767) I. 51 Though he has the remainders of sin in him, hypocrisy not excepted, he has not a heart and a heart. 1787 A. Serle Christian Remembrancer ii. xxiv. 117 If it were possible, an heart and an heart, or a heart divided, would be an hateful offering to the Most High. 1912 Year Bk. Central Conf. Amer. Rabbis 22 294 The Hebrew writers in speaking of the hypocrite..spoke of him as a man with a ‘heart and a heart’. < as lemmas |
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