| 单词 | rescue shelter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrescue shelter b. With the sense ‘directed towards or having as an aim the support or rehabilitation of underprivileged and socially excluded people, esp. prostitutes’, as rescue home, rescue shelter, rescue society, etc. See also rescue mission n. (a) at Compounds 2, rescue work n., rescue worker n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for reformed prostitutes Maudlin house1595 maudlin1603 maudlin hospital1680 Magdalene charity1758 Magdalene house1758 Magdalene hospital1759 Magdalene1766 Magdalene Society1800 penitentiary1806 Magdalene asylum1818 rescue home1855 Magdalene home1901 Magdalene ward1904 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective] > aimed at raising degraded women rescue1855 1855 Times 23 Jan. 4/6 Subscriptions will be received by the Secretaries, the Treasurers, by the Matron of the Refuge; and by Mr. D. Cooper, Secretary to Rescue Society. 1869 (title) Licensing prostitution; reprinted (with permission) from the Report for 1869 of the Rescue Society, London. 1889 L. Ridding Woman's League 12 An Industrial Training Home, Temperance Work, a Rescue Shelter..these various efforts are inspired by the starting of the League. 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. vi. 51 The records of our Rescue Homes abound with life-stories..which prove..the existence of numbers of innocent victims. 1894 Daily News 13 Sept. 2/6 Offshoots of the first rescue home have been planted in many directions. 1927 E. C. Trenholme Rescue Work iii. 21 It was through this venture failing that one of them came into a rescue home. 1981 C. Scott Heavenly Witch ix. 136 At Nîmes the first rescue home was opened, the start of a chain of rescue homes. 1981 F. K. Prochaska Women & Philanthropy vi. 188 The dramatic growth in rescue societies and Magdalene homes. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 389 The governor could commute a sentence of imprisonment against any woman to compulsory residence in any rescue home for any period not exceeding the unexpired period of such sentence. 2006 L. Murdoch Imagined Orphans vi. 146 The typical late-Victorian charity for unwed mothers sent the mother first to a rescue home and then to service, while placing the child in foster care. < as lemmas |
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