单词 | metanoia |
释义 | metanoian. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1577 |
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