| 单词 | alleluia victory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAlleluia victory Alleluia victory n. (also with capital initial in the second element) (the name for) a victory said to have been gained by an army of Britons over the Saxons and Picts in c429; = Halleluia victory n. at hallelujah int. and n.2 Compounds 2. [So called with reference to an account in Constantius of Lyon's Vita Germani (ch. 18), according to which the Britons, newly baptized and led by Germanus of Auxerre, terrified their enemy into flight with cries of ‘alleluia’; compare alleluiatic adj. and its model, post-classical Latin victoria alleluiatica (cited at that lemma).] ΚΠ 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. iii. 186 The Allelujah victory over the Saxons and Picts, as well as the other acts of St. Germain in Wales, are to be placed among the transactions that passed in the time of his second mission. 1856 E. G. K. Browne Hist. Tractarian Movement 6 A pen more eloquent than ours has, in his life of S. German, described the Alleluia victory. 1941 Eng. Hist. Rev. 56 364 Nennius was scholarly enough..to notice the appearance of Saxons at the ‘Alleluia Victory’. 2005 M. Ashley Mammoth Bk. King Arthur v. 92 The victory over the Picts and Scots is more likely to be the Alleluia victory of Germanus. < as lemmas |
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