| 单词 | soul friend |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul friend soul friend n. (a) a very close or intimate friend (cf. soulmate n.); (b) a religious or spiritual adviser; a confessor. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > confessor > [noun] shriftc897 fatherOE shrift-father?c1225 penancerc1300 confessor1340 shriver1340 penitencera1387 penitentiary?a1475 pentionary1560 confessary1629 confessarius1661 scruple-drawer1701 soul friend1891 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > person > one who gives spiritual guidance baba1811 soul friend1929 a1640 W. Fenner Souls Looking-glasse (1643) sig. A5 That God would make you heirs of this joy, is the prayer of your soul-friend. 1656 E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue 203 Receive Reprovers as the Angels of God, as our soul-friends. 1714 S. Moodey Judas the Traitor p. x When you are Converted, Pray also for me, your Soul-Friend. a1770 G. Whitefield Serm. Important Subj. (1771) ii. 35 All the friends we take delight in, our most familiar friends, our soul-friends. 1849 Godey's Lady's Bk. Mar. 188/1 No such soul-friend could Mrs. Turner find; and though she had a warm affection for the Countess Fersen and loved her daughter,..they could not sympathize. 1891 The Month 73 221 He was the Generalissimo's particular dear friend, and indeed his ‘soul-friend’, as a confessor is called in Irish [sc. Ir. anam-chara]. 1929 I. M. Clark Hist. Church Discipline in Scotl. i. 29 Columba had a method of entrusting those who had sinned to the spiritual care of individual monks of his community, who were termed soul-friends and whose duty it was to restore the souls of those penitents. 2003 T. B. Karasu Art of Serenity 37 Not only are Lisa and Joe now husband and wife but they have become soul friends. < as lemmas |
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