单词 | creatureship |
释义 | creatureshipn. The state or condition of being a creature or created being. ΘΚΠ the world > life > [noun] > quality of being creatureship1643 creatureliness1650 creaturehood1661 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie v. 33 His glorification alters not his Creatureship. 1676 W. Cave Serm. 10 The Laws of our Creature-ship and dependance. 1736 J. Gill Cause God & Truth II. i. 12 The objects of this act [sc. God's preterition] were considered in the pure mass of creatureship, were found in this pure mass, and left in it. 1792 T. Jones New Creature in Christ 11 Jesus hath made of Jew and Gentile one new man in himself. So the new creatureship is an universal blessing and privilege, common to all mankind. 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 13 Varied modes of creatureship abound. 1944 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 12 94/1 Religious education has seldom reminded man of his creatureship, but, on the contrary, has emphasized him as a creator. 1972 M. T. Clark Aquinas Reader (2000) 155 Creatureship is in no sense a state of separation from God but a mode of relationship to God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643 |
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