| 单词 | most religious |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmost religious b. most religious: used in addressing or referring to royalty. Cf. Christian adj. 1b. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank > for royalty or other exalted personages grandc1526 serenea1550 most religious1567 sacred1600 serenissimous1623 serenissime1624 super-illustrious1630 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast ii. iii. f. 95v The Bishoppe..went vp to the most religious Emperor, complaining..of the iniurious dealing of the Lieutenant. 1662 Bk. Com. Prayer We humbly beseech thee..for the High Court of Parliament, under our most religious and Gracious King, at this time assembled. 1712 T. Barclay Let. 17 Dec. in F. J. Klingberg Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial N.Y. (1971) i. ii. 63 Next he returned their humble thanks to the most religious Queen Anne. 1772 M. Towgood Answer to Enq. 49 What an insult..to be forced..to acknowledge and declare that most profligate and wicked prince to be indeed a most religious King! 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 15 The chaste Pasiphae,..Wife to that most religious King of Crete. 1849 J. Smith Our Sc. Clergy 2nd Ser. iv. 49 ‘Our most religious Queen, Victoria’, had better be prayed for as any of her subjects, as it is rather too much to assume that all our kings and queens..are most religious. 1958 C. Hill Puritanism & Revol. ii. ix. 298 Our most religious King protected his old tutor from his enemies. < as lemmas |
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