| 单词 | lady of babylon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLady of Babylon Lady of Babylon n. derogatory (now historical) (also Scarlet Lady of Babylon) the Roman Catholic Church; the Pope.With reference to the woman arrayed in purple and scarlet colour in Revelation 17:4 (compare scarlet lady n. at scarlet n. and adj. Compounds 2a). Compare whore n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective mother churchOE mother kirkc1430 whore1530 Lady of Rome1574 Western Church1577 west1586 scarlet whore1590 Lady of Babylon1605 red letter1608 scarlet lady1807 scarlet woman1816 Latinism1920 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. L3v Their not erring and inconsoleable Lord of Rome was no other than that imperious bewitching Ladie of Babylon. 1792 C. Smith Desmond I. vi. 82 In gratifications more worthy the dissolute followers of the meretricious scarlet-clad lady of Babylon, than the mortified disciples of a simple and pure religion. 1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Two Lett. on Catholics ii. 20 I will not dispute with you whether the Pope be or be not the Scarlet Lady of Babylon. 1829 R. Sharp Diary 18 Jan. (1997) 182 They enjoy the Spoils of the old Lady of Babylon and proud they are to wear her cast clothes. 1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond I. v. 83 The pope, with his lady of Babylon, his college of cardinals [etc.]. 1989 R. S. Levine Conspiracy & Romance iii. 107 The evangelical Protestantism of the period..gave new life to the millennial typology portraying the Catholic church as the Scarlet Lady of Babylon. < as lemmas |
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