英语词汇“spiritual adultery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. Chiefly in religious contexts (sometimes as spiritual adultery).

a. Applied to devotion to something other than God. Now rare.

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a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. iii. 8 Israel, dide auowtrie [a1382 E.V. leccherie]..and Juda, hir sistir..did auowtrie [L. moechata esset] with a stoon, and with a tree.

1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme 9 Our soules are sayd to be defiled with adulterie, when they swarue [L. deflectunt] from God to idolatrie and superstition.

1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Prophesie Hosea First Three Chapters 29 [Heathen] idolatry is not adultery; but the people of God being married to the Lord, their idolatry is adultery.

1697 D. Whitby Disc. Love of God 97 'Tis a kind of Spiritual Adultery to admit any Creature into Partnership with him in our Love.

1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit i. v. 59 Idolatry is..frequently held forth under the notion of adultery or fornication, it being a palpable breach of the marriage-covenant between God and his church.

1877 Friends' Rev. 30 663 Showing that we truly and really believe that whosoever will be a friend of the world commits spiritual adultery against Christ .

1902 A. R. Bennett-Gladstone tr. A. Tesnière Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 143 Mortal sin is..ingratitude towards the most constant love; it is the adultery of the soul towards Jesus its Spouse.

b. Ecclesiastical Law. The illicit occupation of a benefice, esp. a bishopric, during the lifetime of the legal incumbent; (also) the transferral of a bishop from one see to another. Now rare (historical in later use).With allusion to 1 Timothy 3:2: ‘A bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife’ (King James Bible).Chambers ( Cycl. Supp. 1753) extends the definition to ‘the punishment or fine imposed for that offence’, but the source quoted actually uses Latin adulterium.

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1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. iii. 479 Calistus the second..Decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his See.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 88/1 They may believe a Bishop is guilty of Adultery who leaves one Diocese to take another.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adultery, a person's invading, or intruding into a bishopric, during the former bishop's life... The translation of a bishop from one see to another was also reputed a kind of Adultery.

1813 M. L. Davis Rep. Case Rev. Cave Jones 312 They looked upon his consecration to be a sort of marriage to his church, from which he could not divorce himself, nor take another, without incurring the crime of spiritual adultery.

1906 E. H. Blair et al. Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 XXXIX. 262 They declared that the banishment of the archbishop..might better be called a spiritual adultery—for, while the spouse of this church was still living, the cabildo intruded their presence in order to abuse her.

单词	spiritual adultery
释义	> as lemmas spiritual adultery 2. figurative. Chiefly in religious contexts (sometimes as spiritual adultery). a. Applied to devotion to something other than God. Now rare. ΚΠ a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. iii. 8 Israel, dide auowtrie [a1382 E.V. leccherie]..and Juda, hir sistir..did auowtrie [L. moechata esset] with a stoon, and with a tree. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme 9 Our soules are sayd to be defiled with adulterie, when they swarue [L. deflectunt] from God to idolatrie and superstition. 1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Prophesie Hosea First Three Chapters 29 [Heathen] idolatry is not adultery; but the people of God being married to the Lord, their idolatry is adultery. 1697 D. Whitby Disc. Love of God 97 'Tis a kind of Spiritual Adultery to admit any Creature into Partnership with him in our Love. 1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit i. v. 59 Idolatry is..frequently held forth under the notion of adultery or fornication, it being a palpable breach of the marriage-covenant between God and his church. 1877 Friends' Rev. 30 663 Showing that we truly and really believe that whosoever will be a friend of the world commits spiritual adultery against Christ . 1902 A. R. Bennett-Gladstone tr. A. Tesnière Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 143 Mortal sin is..ingratitude towards the most constant love; it is the adultery of the soul towards Jesus its Spouse. b. Ecclesiastical Law. The illicit occupation of a benefice, esp. a bishopric, during the lifetime of the legal incumbent; (also) the transferral of a bishop from one see to another. Now rare (historical in later use).With allusion to 1 Timothy 3:2: ‘A bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife’ (King James Bible).Chambers ( Cycl. Supp. 1753) extends the definition to ‘the punishment or fine imposed for that offence’, but the source quoted actually uses Latin adulterium. ΚΠ 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. iii. 479 Calistus the second..Decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his See. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 88/1 They may believe a Bishop is guilty of Adultery who leaves one Diocese to take another. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adultery, a person's invading, or intruding into a bishopric, during the former bishop's life... The translation of a bishop from one see to another was also reputed a kind of Adultery. 1813 M. L. Davis Rep. Case Rev. Cave Jones 312 They looked upon his consecration to be a sort of marriage to his church, from which he could not divorce himself, nor take another, without incurring the crime of spiritual adultery. 1906 E. H. Blair et al. Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 XXXIX. 262 They declared that the banishment of the archbishop..might better be called a spiritual adultery—for, while the spouse of this church was still living, the cabildo intruded their presence in order to abuse her. extracted from adulteryn. < as lemmas
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