| 单词 | recording angel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrecording angel recording angel n. an angel who records a person's good and bad actions.Apparently coined by Sterne as a fanciful image (in a passage that was the subject of frequent quotation and allusion: see quot. 1762) but subsequently sometimes treated as an actual theological concept. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > angels with specific tasks angel of death1565 chorister1584 recording angel1762 death angel1796 destroying angel1814 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. viii. 42 The Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word. 1776 D. Bellamy Family-preacher (ed. 2) I. 1 Let us suppose those Volumes of the recording Angel of God were before us. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. ix. ix. 293 It was as if he stood face to face in the presence, confessing every sin that the recording angel had written in the ancient volume of the Book of Life against him. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 30 Every believer is attended by two guardian and recording angels. 1932 A. Powell Venusberg xxxiii. 235 How will it feel when the Recording Angel calls your bluff for the last time? 1995 J. Banville Athena 4 The one unalloyed good deed I could point to in my life, the thing I thought might go some way towards balancing my account in the recording angel's big black book. < as lemmas |
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