单词 | redemptorist |
释义 | Redemptoristn.adj. A. n. A member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, a Roman Catholic order of priests and lay brothers founded in 1732 by St Alphonsus Liguori, devoted chiefly to preaching, esp. through parish missions and retreats. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Redemptorist > [noun] Redemptorist1822 1822 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 29 Aug. This prohibition has been of some standing. The Jesuits, however, found means to evade it, by assuming the name of ‘Redemptorists’. 1835 J. B. Robertson in tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. of Hist. I. p. xlii In conjunction with..some of the Redemptorists—a most able, amiable, and exemplary body of ecclesiastics at Vienna—he established in 1820, a religious and political journal. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous III. ix. 287 I did as the good Redemptorist bade me. 1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 68/1 The Redemptorists have remained sturdily faithful to their primary work of giving missions and retreats. 1975 Church Times 27 June 14/5 It [sc. the Roman clerical collar] is still worn by Redemptorists, Passionists and Oratorians. 1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo v. 133 The Redemptorist reached across for the teapot and held it up to show Frank that there was a drop still in it. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Redemptorists. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Redemptorist > [adjective] Redemptorist1847 1847 Evangelical Christendom Mar. 88/2 The active zeal of the Redemptorist fathers in Altötting..is conspicuously exemplary. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous III. ix. 283 The Blessed Old Man that was a Redemptorist Father appeared. 1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1880) I. 73 A religious house of the Redemptorist Order. 1901 N.Y. Times 21 July 12/2 There is a large hospital of St. Francis..connected with the Redemptorist Church. 1960 Mod. Philol. 57 197/2 Cullen himself remembered a presumably similar Redemptorist mission five years later as the decisive event of his youth. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xxviii. 223 One Redemptorist priest in Limerick ranted from the pulpit..denouncing Freud and Jung and promising they'd wind up in the deepest hole in hell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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