| 单词 | affliction of self |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaffliction of self (also the body, the flesh, etc.) 1. The action or an act of inflicting pain, frequently as part of religious discipline; spec. self-mortification; an instance of this. In later use esp. in affliction of self (also the body, the flesh, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > cause of > action of causing afflictionc1330 visitationc1380 grievinga1398 inflictiona1535 straiting1591 straitening1598 the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] > action of causing afflictionc1330 grievinga1398 inflictiona1535 traumatization1935 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] afflictionc1330 mortifyingc1384 mortification of (the) body (also flesh, senses, sin, etc.)c1390 mortificationa1500 self-mortification1586 necrosis1706 crucifixiona1711 asceticism1845 c1330 Gregorius (Auch.) (1914) l. 989 (MED) Þai layen alle in affliccioun [c1350 Cleo. afflexions], Þe cardinals euerichon. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 309 Yn þyn afflyccyouns, Yn fastyng and yn orysouns. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxiiii. 126 The sayd hooly prophete..made his prayers and his afflyctions solytaryly and secretely. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. vii. sig. G.iiiv Let him put vpon his bodye, and purge the spyrite by the affliccion of the fleshe. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 9 Affliction for Religion, groweth every day heauier and heauier. 1661 T. Wilson Compl. Christian Dict. 214 The affliction of the body, or abstinence from food, proceeding from a broken and contrite heart, grieving at sins committed against God. a1773 A. Butler Moveable Feasts Catholic Church (1774) v. v. 280 The soul..more ardently entreats God to look on her miseries, with a sense of which she is most feelingly penetrated by the voluntary affliction of the flesh. 1836 J. H. Newman in Tracts for Times II. lxvi. 12 We devoutly preface those solemnities with the due observance of fasts, and with affliction of the flesh. 1881 Baptist Rev. 3 380 Fasting..came gradually..to be a deliberate affliction of self, and to be viewed as a meritorious sacrifice. 1914 W. Lowrie tr. A. Schweitzer Myst. Kingdom of God 243 Jesus..had performed the Atonement of Affliction for the inheritors of the Kingdom. 2008 S. McKnight Fasting vii. 105 The genuine fast then becomes body poverty—affliction of self for the good of others and the good of one's own moral life. < as lemmas |
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