单词 | consummation of the world |
释义 | > as lemmasconsummation of the world a. Chiefly in biblical contexts with reference to the end of the world, final judgement, etc.: a conclusion, end. Frequently in consummation of all things, consummation of the world.Sometimes with the suggestion of destruction; cf. consumation n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence consummationa1425 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Heb. ix. 26 In þe consummacyoun of þe worldys [L. in consummatione sæculorum], þat is to seye, in þe laste age of þe world. 1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. G.iiijv He wyll be wt you euen to the very consummacion & ende of the world. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xviii. 313 The time..of the generall consummation of all thinges is left vncertaine. 1629 A. Symmer Spirituall Posie i. vi. 23 At the consummation of the world, when the number of the Elect shall be perfected. 1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 1 From the first Chaos to the last day, and the Consummation of all things. 1746 J. Wesley Let. 17 June (1931) II. 258 Such interpositions of the power of God, as may not be again till the consummation of all things. 1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit xiii. 162 At the general consummation of all things. 1829 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Mar. 86 The time supposed, is some period beyond the consummation of this world. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 262 Anything short of the final consummation. 1926 Times 27 Nov. 15/5 The Day of Judgement..is regarded as the consummation of the world's history and of the life of each person in it. 1944 M.-L. Dufrenoy tr. F. Mauriac Eucharist iv. 27 His gesture of love reaches the real wounds always open, always bleeding until the consummation of the world. 1999 Nat. Hist. Apr. 28/2 Among the natural phenomena that poets and scholars have regarded as heralds..of the final consummation, volcanic eruptions hold pride of place. < as lemmas |
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