| 单词 | cloud of witnesses |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloud of witnesses 7. An innumerable body of insects, birds, etc., flying together; hence transferred and figurative a multitude (of persons or things), a crowd; esp. in cloud of witnesses, translating νέϕος μαρτύρων in Hebrews xii. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous legiona1325 rout?c1335 multitudec1350 thrave1377 cloudc1384 schoola1450 meiniec1450 throng1538 ruckc1540 multitudine1547 swarm1548 regiment1575 armya1586 volley1595 pile1596 battalion1603 wood1608 host1613 armada1622 crowd1628 battalia1653 squadron1668 raffa1677 smytrie1786 raft1821 squash1884 the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > swarm swarm1560 cloud1590 horde1613 skreeda1838 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xii. 1 So greet a cloud of witnessis. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 A cloud of cumbrous gnattes doe him molest. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 340 A pitchy cloud Of Locusts. View more context for this quotation 1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 112 A cloud of Informations was brought in by ye Attorney General. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 171 The Spaniards..seeing nothing but a cloud of sail in pursuit of them. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xxi. 602 A cloud of arrows was discharged among the people. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iv. ix, in Maud & Other Poems 20 With his head in a cloud of poisonous flies. a1882 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonn. Sunset Wings, Clouds of starlings. < as lemmas |
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