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单词 he that touches pitch shall be defiled
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he that touches pitch shall be defiled
P2. he that touches pitch shall be defiled and variants (used with reference to the adverse effects of contact with an evil person, deed, idea, etc.).Originally in, or with allusion to, Ecclesiasticus 13:1, in the King James Bible (1611) rendered as ‘He that toucheth pitch, shal be defiled therewith, and hee that hath fellowship with a proude man, shall be like vnto him’.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xiii. 1 Who shal touche pich, shal be defoulid of it.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 854 Who so toucheth warm pych, it shent his fyngres.
c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. 2063 (MED) He that handelith picche shall not eschewe But that he shal be defouled therof somdell.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 74 Who touches Pitch mought needes be defilde.
a1645 R. Baker Theatrum Redivivum (1662) 33 When sins are actually committed, they are as Pitch which toucheth us, and must needs defile us.
1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 129 Defil'd in touching such Pitch.
1824 Sc. Peasants xi We canna touch pick But some o't will stick.
1851 H. Barnard Pract. Illustr. Princ. School Archit. 170 Who can touch pitch and be clean?
1886 ‘H. Conway’ Living or Dead xx I was touching pitch, yet striving to keep myself from being defiled.
1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 44 If he touches pitch and is defiled, then he must endure the defilement.
2002 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 15 Sept. 66 Here is a writer willing to touch pitch and risk being defiled.
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