| 单词 | before-life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbefore-life before-life n. life before birth or conception; life before (true) life begins; cf. afterlife n. 2. [Originally after German Vorleben (1858 in the passage translated in quot. 1905, or earlier); in later use after afterlife n.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > that which is prior to life before-life1905 1905 tr. R. Wagner Diary in New Mus. Rev. Nov. 520/1 On this day, at this hour, was I born anew. To then was my before-life [Ger. Vorleben]; from then began my after-life [Ger. Nachleben]. 1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 154 They were the lords of shadow, the intermediate twilight, the place of after-life and before-life. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 390 The after life is no more egalitarian than the before life; there exists a metempsychotic hierarchy. 2009 R. Alcorn If God is Good xxviii. 294 We could more accurately call our present existence the beforelife rather than calling Heaven the afterlife. < as lemmas |
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