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单词 metanoia
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metanoian.

Brit. /ˌmɛtəˈnɔɪə/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈnɔɪə/
Forms: 1500s metania, 1600s 1800s– metanoia, 1700s metanoea.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μετάνοια.
Etymology: < ancient Greek μετάνοια change of mind, repentance, regret (in Hellenistic Greek also as a rhetorical term, ‘correction, afterthought’: see note) < μετανοεῖν to change one's mind, to repent < μετα- meta- prefix + νόος mind (see nous n.). With forms metanoea and metania compare post-classical Latin metanoea (a394, as a personification of repentance), metania.The first use of μετάνοια as a rhetorical term (see quot. 1577) is in the classical Latin text of Rutilius Lupus (1st cent. a.d.) summarizing the now lost Greek text of Gorgias (1st cent. b.c.).
The act or process of changing one's mind (in quot. 1577, as a rhetorical device); spec. penitence, repentance; reorientation of one's way of life, spiritual conversion.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > [noun]
reusingeOE
deedbotec1000
sin-bootc1175
penitencea1200
repentancec1300
penancea1325
compunctiona1340
repentingc1350
contritionc1386
repentaillec1390
remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410
penitencya1500
penitudea1538
penancy?1567
repent1573
metanoia1577
remorsefulnessa1617
synteresy1616
synderesis1639
synteresis1650
remordency1658
sermon-sicknessa1665
contriteness1692
penitentness1727
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Riij Metania [sic], comprehended vnder correction, and it is..a discription of things, by reprehension, thus, he played the man amongest his ennimyes, nay he played the Lyon..; also, when the Oratour correcteth & blameth himselfe.
1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 100 Climbe vp where pleasures dwell In flowrie Allies: And taste the liuing Well That deckes the Vallyes. Faire Metanoia is attending To crowne thee with those ioyes which know no ending.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Metanoea, a change of mind or opinion.
1817–9 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 855 Not what you have done, but what you are, must determine—Metanoia.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 196 Of ‘metanoia’, as Jesus used the word, the lamenting one's sins was a small part; the main part was something more active and fruitful, the setting up an immense new inward movement for obtaining the rule of life. And ‘metanoia’, accordingly, is: a change of the inner man.
1881 Amer. Church Rev. July 167 What a Metanoia was there, to both Jesus and John!.. And what a Metanoia had come also upon the disciples of John and upon Israel!
1945 A. Huxley Let. 10 Apr. (1969) 520 Virgil's metanoia was in the nature of a death-bed repentance.
1969 F. de Graeve in J. Kerkhofs Mod. Mission Dialogue p. xvi It must reveal the Church..as the community in which the religious intentionality of all people can blossom into that newness of life that is the real metanoia.
1988 J. Hamilton Idle Hill of Summer (1989) v. 73 How could he explain to her and expect her to believe in his..metanoia, this tremendous change of heart?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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