| 单词 | work of necessity |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswork (also duty) of necessity b. work (also duty) of necessity: something which cannot possibly or naturally be left undone; spec. (in law relating to Sunday observance) an important or essential task which, in contrast with others, may be performed on a Sunday.Cf. work of mercy at mercy n. 1e. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > a duty or moral necessity needOE deedc1400 necessitya1500 office1534 work (also duty) of necessitya1602 incumbency?1608 remorsea1616 incumbence1684 call1704 commitment1837 calling1857 geis1965 a1602 W. Perkins Whole Treat. Cases of Conscience (1606) ii. xvi. 458 Workes..of present necessitie..such, as cannot be done before or after the Sabboth. 1632 J. Weemes Expos. Morall Law 237 Workes of necessity may be done that day. 1647 Conf. Faith Assemb. Div. Westm. (1650) xxi. 46 In the duties of necessity, and mercy. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles (1850) 179 We must not rest on the sabbath-day, if a work of necessity or charity calls us to put to our hands. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. 536 The whole day, except so much as is necessary for workes of necessity and mercy, is to be spent in the public and private exercises of God's worship. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xii. 290 [Trumbull loq.] A work of necessity and mercy. 1876 Presbyterian Q. & Princeton Rev. Jan. 143 The involuntary work of a slave on the Sabbath may, perhaps, be considered a work of necessity. 1953 Stroud's Judicial Dict. (ed. 3) III. 1877 Baking rolls on a Sunday is not a ‘work of necessity’ within the exception in S.1, Sunday Observance Act, 1677..; but baking dinners for customers is. 1999 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 21 May b1 Jacobi's response says ‘it was only his judicial duty of necessity’ that led him to issue the order blocking Witten's removal. < as lemmas |
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