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单词 subcreation
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subcreationn.

Brit. /ˌsʌbkrɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsəbkriˈeɪʃən/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, creation n.
Etymology: < sub- prefix + creation n. Compare subcreative adj.
1. A secondary or subsidiary creation. Also as a mass noun.
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1845 Lit. Gaz. 12 July 455/1 Believing that the subcreations occupied merely days, the archbishop left them entirely out of his chronology, as any one will find from his Memoirs.
1895 H. H. Statham Archit. for Gen. Readers 152 We are not made so that we can absolutely originate anything; we take hints from nature, and upon their basis make our own sub-creations.
1913 L. Mills Our Own Relig. in Anc. Persia 175 To interfere beneficently and promotively in this otherwise unchangeable course would be of the nature of sub-creation and of miracle.
1967 Traditio 23 165 Bernard..continues with a description of all created nature as a series of sub-creations and as a series of obediences.
2008 W. A. McDougall Throes of Democracy iii. 141 He [sc. Henry C. Carey] held capitalist enterprise to be an act of divinely inspired sub-creation, wealth a reward for good stewardship.
2. spec. J. R. R. Tolkien's word for: the action or process of creating a fully realized and internally consistent imaginary (or ‘secondary’) world.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place > creation of
subcreation1947
1947 J. R. R. Tolkien in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 51 This aspect of ‘mythology’—sub-creation, rather than either representation or symbolic interpretation of the beauties and terrors of the world—is, I think, too little considered.
1974 R. Helms Tolkien's World vi. 123 He needed to tell himself..that the cosmos is friendly to sub-creation, because it echoes its own chief and most joyous activity.
2003 L. Smith Cloud Realm (back cover) Cloud Realm is my first foray into ‘subcreation’, a vast and complex world with interlocking and interacting stories with great depth and detail, in the same tradition as J. R. R. Tolkien.
2005 J. Pearce Literary Giants, Literary Catholics iv. xxxii. 253 Thus, in Tolkien's view, there is a hierarchy of Creation. At the top is God, as Creator; then comes Creation,..finally there is subcreation, whereby man partakes of the image of the Creator through the gift of creativity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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