单词 | negative confession |
释义 | > as lemmasnegative confession negative confession n. (a) (with capital initials) a statement of principles of the Church of Scotland drawn up by John Craig in 1581, incorporated in the National Covenant of that year and in subsequent National Covenants, esp. that of 1638, and characterized by the rejection of all doctrine not in accord with the Scottish Confession of 1560 (now historical); = King's Confession n. at king n. Compounds 5b; (b) the part of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead in which the deceased lists the wrongs he or she has not committed. ΚΠ 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik & Facile Traictise in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 104 Gif all the poyntis of your Negatiue Confession laitlie set furth, be expresslie writtin in the word of God, quhy haue ye not cottit the places of your bybill, quhair out thaj ar drauin. 1641 J. Maxwell Episcopacie not abivred in Scotl. vii. 63 They bring foure severall sentences out of the Abjuration or Negative Confession, falsitying and wresting them strangely. 1841 W. Osburn Antiq. of Egypt 157 The soul says.., ‘O thou that dost consume creation, I have not been drunken’. The foregoing may suffice as specimens of what has generally been termed the negative confession. 1856 W. M. Hetherington Hist. Church Scotl. 165/1 The Covenant or Confession of 1581, which, as it contained chiefly an abjuration of Popery, was often termed the Negative Confession. 1977 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 8 257 The Negative Confession in the Egyptian Book of the Dead contains the words ‘I have not turned back water at its springtide’. 1997 E. A. Livingstone Oxf. Dict. Christian Church (ed. 3) 930/1 The ‘King's Confession’..was also known as the ‘Negative Confession’, since it denied all religion and doctrine not in accord with the Scottish Confession of 1560. < as lemmas |
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