| 单词 | higher power |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigher power higher power n. a divine or spiritual being, esp. God or a god, that governs human affairs and to which humankind is subject; (also, and in earliest use) a temporal ruler or authority viewed as a representative of God. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person or body higher powerc1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xiii. 1 Euery soule, or lyuynge man, be suget to hiȝer poweris. Forsoth there is not power no but of God; sothli tho thingis that ben of God, ben ordeyned. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 99 May it be deemed..that any higher power, or Secundeian godhead,..presently menaceth any such heinous mischeefes,..as are strongly imagined? 1703 F. Bugg Quakerism Drooping Pref. sig. A5 The Commands of their Princes are no farther obliging to them, than as they suit with..their Light within; which they account the higher Power, superior both to Scripture and Magistracy. 1870 Eclectic Mag. July 66/1 Religion rests chiefly on a belief in a Higher Power. 1969 Voice of Buddhism June 15/2 Buddhism refuses any efficacy to prayer and does not recognise a higher power outside ourselves to work out our salvation. 2015 F. Mathews Too Bad to Die xvi. 148 Hudson closed his eyes, as though willing a higher power to give him strength. < as lemmas |
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