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单词 upon one's christianity
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upon (also by) one's Christianity
P1. upon (also by) one's Christianity: truly, assuredly; on one's faith. Chiefly used parenthetically as an oath or to emphasize the truth of a statement. Obsolete.Cf. by one's Christendom at Christendom n. Phrases 2, by my halidom at halidom n. 3b.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to Christianity
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upon (also by) one's Christianitya1500
a1500 (?a1400) Firumbras (1935) l. 289 (MED) By god..and be my cristyante, Syr Olyuer, ȝe sey soȝt.
1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. 5 Sept. in T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1633) ii. ix. 187 Upon my Christianity, I doe acknowledge him to haue deserved more of mee.
a1645 W. Laud Hist. Troubles & Tryal (1695) xxi. 219 But upon my Christianity this Story is Truth.
1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xxviii. 324 Such a man, where attestation among his Fellow-Christians was required, might with a good grace lay his hand on his breast, and say, I protest by my baptism, or I declare by my Christianity, it is, it was, or it shall be so and so.
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