| 单词 | stool of repentance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstool of repentance stool of repentance n. (also †stool for repentance, †seat of repentance) now historical a stool formerly placed in a conspicuous position in some Scottish churches, on which was seated a person required to make a public display of repentance for a sin, esp. a sin involving extramarital sex; also in extended use; cf. repenting stool n. at repenting n. Compounds, cutty-stool n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance penitent form1563 repenting stool1567 stool of repentance1581 place of repentance1582 repentance stool1591 repentance seat1771 cutty-stoola1774 Mercy seat1818 anxious seat1827 anxious bench1832 mourner's bench1834 mourner's seat1845 moaner's bench1929 1581 in A. J. Mill Mediaeval Plays in Scotl. (1927) 279 [They are to] present thame self in the seat off repentance thair to remaine the Sabbothe day in tyme off sermond. 1591 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 17 That euerie persoun that..makis ony bein..fyiris..sall stand in sakclothe thre seuerall Sondayis vpoun the stuill of repentance. 1647 in Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland (1901) 31 271 To Adam McNeilis for dressing ye stoole of repentance, 02s. 5d. 1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 120 They are setting up the stool of repentance in their churches as formerly, where people guilty of incontinency are to doe pennance. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 308 To stand publickly in the Stool of Repentance, acknowledging their former transgressions. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. iii. 24 He has been just half a year on the stool of repentance. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vii. 122 D'ye think the lads..will care for..yere stool o' repentance ? View more context for this quotation 1834 J. Blackie tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust iv. vi. 160 'Tis time she should submit to rule And penance do on the repentance-stool! 1884 Christian World 2 Oct. 737/1 The Times..seats itself as it were in shame on the stool of repentance. 1920 M. Webb House in Dormer Forest (2004) i. ii. 24 She remembered him as a small boy having been placed on the stool of repentance by Mrs. Cantlop—who had taught them all. 1997 C. Shaw Sc. Myths & Customs i. 30 Girls who had borne illegitimate children were dressed in sackcloth and stood on the stool of repentance every Sunday as a public punishment. < as lemmas |
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