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单词 god-born
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God-born
God-born adj. (also with lower-case initial) chiefly poetic and literary (a) (with reference to Greek or Roman mythology) born of a god or gods; of divine parentage or ancestry; (also with reference to Christ) born of God; (b) (of a thought, feeling, etc.) given by or proceeding from God (cf. God-given adj., God-sent adj. at Compounds 1c).
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1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls i. 16 That god-born prince [L. nepos natusque dei] (although himself denie) His fathers weight shall manage piously.
1755 W. Dodd tr. Theocritus Encomium of Ptolemy in tr. Callimachus Hymns 198 Hail royal Ptolemy! equal to the race Of god-born heroes [Gk. ἡμιθέων], thee the Muse extols.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxi. 85 The Virgin Mother of the God-born child, With her son in her blessed arms, look'd round.
1843 Dial Apr. 422 The God-born idea is not an impulsion, but an inspiration.
1910 Outlook 24 Dec. 950 His baby hand shall give to earth All of a God-born Saviour's care.
1988 W. M. Wright & J. F. Power in P. M. Thibert tr. F. de Sales & J. de Chantal Lett. Spiritual Direction 14 The director then helped that person to learn to identify those promptings, to..propose possible practices that might encourage the free expression of those God-born impulses.
2000 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 22/3 In Greek theatre, Heracles was a..Geryon-bodied figure, with distinct genre characterizations for his appearances in tragedy (god-born culture-hero grappling with the limits of mortality) [etc.].
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