| 单词 | lady of rome |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLady of Rome Lady of Rome n. [originally after post-classical Latin Romanae urbis domina (1558 in the passage translated in quot. 1574)] derogatory (now historical) the Roman Catholic Church; cf. Lady of Babylon n. at Phrases 2b(a). 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 1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes lx. f. 63 Theodora an impudent harlot and the Lady of Rome [L. Romanæ urbis domina] burning in fleshly lust, was so enflamed..that she did not only request him, but compelle him to satisfie her carnall desire. 1701 J. Toland Art Governing by Parties viii. 148 That the old lady of Rome, with all her wrinkles, shou'd yet have charms able to subdue Great Princes. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers (1858) xx. 150 The ordeal through which he had gone, in resisting the blandishments of the lady of Rome. 1968 Hist. Educ. Q. 8 90 A master plan to win Protestant America for the Scarlet Lady of Rome. < as lemmas |
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