| 单词 | age of faith |
| 释义 | > as lemmasage of faith age of faith n. (chiefly with the) (a name for) any period of history in which religion plays an important part, esp. the Middle Ages. Cf. the age of reason at reason n.1 Phrases 1d. ΚΠ 1679 N. Philips Holy Choice 20 Though we talk much in this Age of Faith, of Faith, and of our Dependance on Future good things, yet tis on Sight, on Sight and in the Enjoyment of the good things that are present, that all Felicity is Plac'd. 1795 Brit. Critic Apr. 427 If the present age be allowed to be, as it has been called, the age of reason, it cannot be the age of faith. 1841 T. Carlyle Heroes iv. 204 Whole ages, what we call ages of Faith, are original,—all men in them, sincere. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 44 The distinction between pawnbroking..and high finance..was as familiar in the Age of Faith as in the twentieth century. 1989 Independent 30 Dec. 38/6 Ours is not the age of faith or reason but the age of information. 2003 Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 25/5 The..service which survives today may be a slightly etiolated version of its pre-dawn original forged in the age of faith. < as lemmas |
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