| 单词 | rending veil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrending veil 2. That is splitting apart or breaking up. Chiefly in rending veil in later use. Now rare.With reference to rending veil see, for example, Matthew 27:51: ‘And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [adjective] rivinga1400 renting1561 ripping1576 splitting1609 divulsivea1626 rending1660 shredding1883 1660 S. Pordage tr. Seneca Troades ii. i. 8 When on a sodain th'Earth shoke, a hollow sound Flew from the bottome of the rending ground. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 289 Darts the swift Lightning from the rending cloud. 1766 J. Beattie Elegy Death Lady in Poems Several Subj. 82 O happy stroke, that..Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day. 1827 H. H. Millman in R. Heber Hymns Weekly Church Service 62 By the sun at noon-day pale, Shivering rocks, and rending veil. 1887 S. Bristol Pioneer Preacher ix. 109 What means that rending veil? What the sun's veiled face? What the rending rocks and earthquake? 1903 F. B. Bradley-Birt Chota Nagpore xi. 255 The sharp cessation of all noise within, typical of the rending veil of life. < as lemmas |
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