单词 | resipiscence |
释义 | resipiscencen. Chiefly literary in later use. Originally: repentance for misconduct; recognition of one's past misdeeds or errors. Later also: the action or fact of coming to one's senses, or of returning to a more acceptable opinion. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] reusingeOE rueeOE ruenessOE bireusingc1000 penitencea1200 rutha1200 after-charc1220 again-charc1220 ruesomenessa1225 ofthinkingc1225 forthinkinga1250 repentancec1300 penancea1325 pityc1330 compunctiona1340 agenbite1340 repentingc1350 athinking1382 contritionc1386 repentaillec1390 rueinga1400 remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410 conscience?a1425 remorsea1425 penitencya1500 penitudea1538 resipiscency?c1550 penancy?1567 resipiscence1570 repent1573 brokennessa1617 remorsefulnessa1617 synteresy1616 synderesis1639 heart-searching1647 synteresis1650 remordency1658 contriteness1692 resentment1705 penitentness1727 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme ii. f. 48 Sinners..haue neede of repentance, which some like better to call Resipiscence [L. resipiscentiam], or amendment. 1606 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) vii. 499 Nothing hath appeared in them but an obdured obstinacy, without any token of resipiscence. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xxiii. 231 If their return be upon the score of resipiscence, far be it from me to be such an one as Beza complains of. 1780 A. Mackenzie Frequent Communion xii. 258 Cerdon another heresiark, had been often, on his repeated resipiscence, made partaker of the communion of the church. 1796 D. St. Quentin tr. C. A. de Calonne Polit. State Europe iii. 63 As interest alone was the apparent principle of their resipiscence, so it will be its termination. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. viii. 525 They drew a flattering picture of the resipiscence of the Anglican party. 1864 C. Merivale Conversion Rom. Empire 37 Full of horror at his own backsliding, full of hope for his tardy resipiscence. 1936 Times 30 Mar. 11/3 Italy..had faith in the justice of time and in the resipiscence of the most stubborn peoples. 1996 C. F. Coates tr. J.-B. Aristide Dignity 24 The dismantling of the gang of four..could have led the military to resipiscence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570 |
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