单词 | our lady of pity |
释义 | > as lemmasOur Lady of Pity 7. = Pietà n. In modern use only allusively as in the phrase Our Lady of Pity, used to denote the Virgin Mary represented as holding the dead body of Jesus, usually on her lap (whence its common use in the names of Roman Catholic churches).Cf. Our Lady Piety n. at piety n. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing the Virgin > with Christ's body in lap Our Lady of Pity1522 Our Lady Piety1533 1416 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1943) IV. 49 (MED) [One image called] pyte [of alabaster]. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 148 Sche went to þe cherch..wher þis creatur sey a fayr ymage of owr Lady clepyd a pyte, And thorw þe beholdyng of þat pete hir mende was al holy ocupyed in þe Passyon of owr Lord. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fifteen Joys 10 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 268 (MED) Of fortune turnyng the book, I fond A meditacioun..Tofor which was sett out in picture Of Marie an ymage ful notable; Lyke a pyte depeynt was the figure With weepyng eyen and cheer most lamentable. 1522 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 20 For the anorment and light of our ladie of pitie in the said churche. 1558 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 298 (MED) Remembre all so this dolorus pytie, How þat this blyssid ladye thus doth enbrace Her dere son ded, lygyng vpen her kne. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 190 You come to the Chappel of our Lady of Pity, which is under the Mount Calvary. 1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 347 Sir Edward Dering imagined this to have been the chapel formerly called the chapel of our lady of pity. 1894 K. Tynan Cuckoo Songs 90 She stands, Our Lady of Pity, Over the old church porch. 1953 Times 7 Jan. 8/7 The central group of this shrine..represents Our Lady of Pity holding the body of the dead Christ. 2003 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) (Nexis) 21 June The new Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia..will celebrate Mass at the town's Church of Our Lady of Pity. < as lemmas |
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