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单词 bride of christ
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bride of Christ
P1. bride of Christ (also Christ's bride): a title given to various people or things regarded as symbolically betrothed to Christ; spec. (a) the Christian Church, the community of Christian worshippers; (b) a woman devoted to the Christian faith, esp. as a member of a religious order; a consecrated virgin (consecrated virgin n.); a nun (often in plural).Originally in Christ's bride; bride of Christ is recorded from the early 16th cent. and is now the more common form.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxi. 320 Mid þy þa se lichoma þære halgan fæmnan & þære Cristes bryde [L. sponsae Christi] openre þære byrgenne wæs forð on leoht gelæded, þa wæs he gemeted..ungebrosnad.
OE Ælfric Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin (Corpus Cambr. 162) xxxiv, in Anglia (1884) 7 24 Of þære [sidan] arn wæter & blod to alysenne his gelaðunge, seo is gecweden Cristes bryd & clæne mæden.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15337 Cristess hird..Iss cristess brid onn erþe.
1537 M. Coverdale tr. M. Luther Expos. Psalm xxii sig. D.ivv Then doth the beloued bryde of Christ set her downe at hyr lordes table.
a1673 T. Horton 100 Select Serm. (1679) xlviii. 447/1 Every faithful soul is Christ's Bride.
1751 R. Erskine Repose of Faith under Tree of Life 10 Thus you see how the Bride of Christ may be scorched and Sunbeaten.
1819 Patriot 4 Sept. 4/3 A throned Church cannot be the bride of Christ.
1864 tr. E. Caracciolo Mem. (ed. 2) xiii. 169 The nuns are forbidden to sleep with the door of their room shut, which shows a distrust little honourable to the brides of Christ.
1994 D. Eastman Jericho Hour ii. 25 The unfolding of God's plan regarding the completion of Christ's bride and the ultimate establishment of His kingdom on earth.
2012 J. Clarke Three Summers v. 41 Of course they were good. Hadn't Mother Evangeline told them that the Sisters were brides of Christ?
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