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单词 work of darkness
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work of darkness
d. An act or deed expressive of a particular moral quality or purpose, as work of alms, work of charity, work of darkness, etc. Usually in plural. Cf. work of mercy at mercy n. 1e.In Old English with genitive.
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society > faith > worship > good works > [noun]
workingOE
workOE
meritc1350
work of almsa1400
society > faith > worship > good works > [noun] > instance of
good workOE
work of almsa1400
work of charitya1500
mitzvah1892
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 370 Nu ge la godes cempan, awurpað caflice eow fram þæra þeostra weorc, and wurðað ymbscrydde mid leohtes wæpnum.
lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 95 Drihten sylf us..trymede to mildheortnysse weorcan on þan godspelle.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 11 Ðe werc of þesternesse þat ben alle heuie sennen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19764 Cristen sco was and euer fus Abute all werkes of almus.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 5764 Werkes of mercy and of almus.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 341 It was a werke of charitee.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. v. 11 Have no fellishippe with the vnfrutfull workes of dercknes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xviij Amonges other workes of Charitie..we shoulde..comforte the sicke.
1635 Bp. F. White Treat. Sabbath-day 163 Spirituall ceasing and abstaining from the servile workes of sin.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. vi. 117 Did not you confess that they were able..to do the works of common Grace?
1703 Earl of Orrery As you find It v. ii. 63 I have another Work of Charity upon my hands,..to reform an extravagant Husband.
1773 C. Chauncy Christian Love 28 This union in love, evidencing its reality in works of kindness and charity.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague iii. ii. 131 Even in her dreams Her soul is at some work of charity.
1863 Q. Rev. Oct. 519 Cecil..did not countermine works of darkness with works of darkness.
1910 Burlington Mag. June 174/2 She [sc. St. Margaret of York] is represented eight times: twice kneeling at a prayer desk, and six times as exercising works of charity.
1959 F. O'Connor Let. 30 May (1979) 335 For the next period of her life, which the Baron counts about 21 years, she..practiced simply works of charity.
2001 L. P. Gartner Hist. Jews in Mod. Times i. 8 All these works of kindness and piety could keep busy the minds and hands of the 1,000 to 2,000 persons who constituted an average urban kehillah.
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