| 单词 | praying indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspraying Indian praying Indian n. North American (now historical) (also with capital initial in the first element) (esp. in 17th cent. Massachusetts) a North American Indian practising Christianity. ΚΠ 1652 T. Mayhew Let. 22 Oct. in J. Eliot Tears of Repentance (1653) sig. B4 There was a storm..but when I came to this end I found a calm, the Praying Indians were all well, they arose in the morning, Prayed to God, and went about their business. 1745 Acct. Treaty held at City of Albany 18 Afterwards divers of the Indians present, chiefly of the Praying Indians, went with the French Governor to Quebec. 1877 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 7 June In 1674 he [sc. John Eliot] had 1,100 praying Indians and twenty-five native preachers. 2004 L. M. Stevens Poor Indians i. 52 By the end of the seventeenth century, especially after King Philip's War had destroyed most of New England's praying Indians, missionaries began to acquire a tone of pessimism and urgency. < as lemmas |
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