| 单词 | under concern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder concern b. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a feeling, arising from an insight into the divine will, that action must be taken on a particular matter. Also in under concern: experiencing such a feeling. Cf. concerned adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair charec897 matter?c1225 journeya1352 affairc1390 notea1400 incident1485 concernment1495 actiona1500 business1524 concern1680 job1680 ploya1689 show1797 game1812 caper1839 pigeon dropping1850 shebang1869 hoodoo1876 racket1880 palaver1899 scene1964 society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > belief in God > [noun] > conviction of divine will concern1680 1680 W. Rogers Christian-Quaker Pref. to Rdr. sig. (A)v So great a Concern of Conscience lyes on many, to encourage the Publication hereof. ?1680 Antichristian Treachery Discovered 3 One under a Godly concern to promote the honour of Truth. 1699 Epist. to Friends 15 A great concern came upon several of us in a spiritual Travel for the Honour of God. a1723 G. Whitehead Christian Progress (1725) i. 21 A weighty Concern came upon me to leave my Father's House and County of Westmoreland. 1772 A. Hunter Let. 18 Mar. in P. V. Fithian Jrnl. & Lett. (1900) 22 Our orations are put off lest they should do some harm to some under concern. 1838 J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. ii. 25 ‘Have you heard that Grace is under concern?’..‘Not under the church parson's [preaching], I'll engage; no one ever heard of a real..conversion under his ministry.’ 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xv. 172 If your friend Sibyl should have a ‘concern’ laid on her for your Mr. St. John, she would tell him some wholesome truths. 1949 Friend 17 June 495/2 Love (as God loves, not as man loves) for other people, linked with a sense of responsibility—not such responsibility as John Smith can feel but as God's hands and feet can feel—that is ‘concern’. 1966 E. H. Jones Margery Fry v. 46 She did not..experience in Meeting or elsewhere that spiritual communion which was supposed to nourish ‘concerns’. 2013 J. L. Scully in S. W. Angell & P. Dandelion Oxf. Handbk. Quaker Stud. xxxvi. 539 The Meeting may decide to support the Friend's concern in whatever way is appropriate, or may respond that the issue is not one on which the Meeting is united. < as lemmas |
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