| 释义 |
oneness|ˈwʌnnɪs|
[f. one + -ness: OE. had án-nes, which became regularly in 13th c. onnesse in south, annesse in north. (See anness.) But this became obs. bef. 1300, and oneness was formed anew in 16th c.]
1. The quality of being one in number, singleness. (Esp. of the divine unity.)
[c885–c 1175: see anness 1.] 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. ii. §2 Our God is one, or rather very onenesse, and meere unitie. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., An eternal Being, an infinite Onenesse. 1683J. Pordage Myst. Div. 11 The Holy Trinity are one, and yet three in that oneness. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 339 The Science of the universal, having the ideas of oneness and allness as the two elements. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 584 Man of one species.—This oneness of species is sustained by the following considerations.
b. The fact or quality of being the only one of its kind; singularity, uniqueness.
1715J. Chappelow Rt. way Rich. (1717) 26 Here is..the singularity, oneness of this pearl, one pearl, none other like it. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. v. 4 The thing itself being almost incredible in its oneness.
2. The fact or quality of being alone; solitariness, loneliness. rare.
[a1000–a 1300: see anness 2. c 1200 Vices & Virtues 137 Ancres and hermites ðe luuieð onnesse.] 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. x. 212 Is my curse to be a oneness, both of fate and feeling? 1850Mrs. Browning Early Rose i, In her loneness, in her loneness, And the fairer for that oneness.
3. The quality of being one body or whole (though compounded of two or more parts); undividedness, integrity, unity.
[c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. iv, Þa ðe..ᵹelumpon..to annesse þære halᵹan cirican.] 1626Jackson Creed viii. viii. §3 The Onenesse of person in the sonne of God, Christ Jesus, God and man. 1695Ld. Preston Boethius iii. 143 If by dis⁓severing & segregating the Parts that Oneness is distracted, it is no more what before it was. 1736Butler Anal. i. i. 17 The Simplicity and absolute Oneness of a living Agent. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. x, His somewhat peculiar view of Nature, the decisive Oneness he ascribes to Nature. 18..Whittier Pr. Wks. (1889) III. 286 It overlooks..the solidarity and oneness of humanity.
4. The fact of forming one whole (said of two or more persons or things, or of one person or thing with another); combination, unity, union.
1657Austen Fruit Trees ii. 44 This Union and Onenesse between us, and God the father. 1698Christ Exalted 6 Is not this taking their Persons into Oneness with himself? 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 13 The closest human oneness, of husband and wife.
5. The fact or quality of being one and the same, sameness, identity; the character of remaining the same in varying circumstances or at different times, constancy, unchangingness.
1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 339 This onenesse..of God, is not numerall,..but hath reference, either to the vnchangablenesse of God, and his keeping one steddy, and vnuaried course in iustifying all. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 175 The physical and moral oneness of existence. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xv. 544 The numerical oneness or identity of the Soul at different times.
b. The fact or quality of being the same in kind; identity of nature or character (of two or more things).
1657Austen Fruit Trees ii. 194 To stand for Uniformity or Oneness in the externall part of the worship of God. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 586 All are so agreeably blended into a oneness of character. 1882W. Huggins in 19th Cent. Aug. 274 The essential oneness of the cometary stuff with the gas composed of carbon and hydrogen.
†c. The fact of being the same, or alike, in relation to two or more; community. Obs. rare.
a1225Ancr. R. 12 Me schal makien strencðe of onnesse of cloþes, & of oðer what of vttre þinges, þet te onnesse wiðuten bitocnie þe onnesse of o luue & of o wil.
6. Unity of mind, feeling, or purpose; unison, agreement, harmony, concord.
[c1175: see anness 3.] a1225[see 5 c]. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 28 For the oneness & conformity of mind that both were in, touching this matter. 1647Bp. Hall Christ Myst. §20. 114 A spirituall oneness arising from an happy conspiration of their thoughts and affections. 1649W. Dell Way of Peace 28 The members of the body can judge of the one-nesse of Spirit that is among themselves. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. iii. (1872) 38 Have ceased to expect any other oneness for the Church of Christ than that of a sameness of spirit. |