单词 | lapse from grace |
释义 | > as lemmaslapse from grace lapse from grace n. (a) Theology = fall from grace n. (a) at Phrases 2c; (b) a temporary departure from expected standards; a (minor) mistake or transgression. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original fleshc1200 original sinc1350 falla1400 birth poison1528 birth sin?1546 fall from grace1560 lapse1659 lapse from grace1687 birth stain1820 felix culpa1963 1687 Spencer Redivivus 20 Hellish Sprights By no deluding Dreams..Cou'd tempt the steady Hero to embrace Pleasures that might induce his lapse from Grace. 1838 P. N. Shuttleworth Not Trad. but Revel. 101 The means of spiritual restoration, after a lapse from grace, held out to the last moment of a man's earthly existence. 1940 N.Y. Times 2 Feb. 12/5 The company's reputation..has already been so well established that a lapse from grace at this late date is not likely to disturb it seriously. 1957 J. Lassaigne Flemish Painting 112 We are shown side by side Adam's lapse from grace and its tragic consequences. 1998 London Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Oct. 18 It is hard to think of any job other than politics..where one lapse from grace and your career is finished. to fall (also lapse) from grace b. to fall (also lapse) from grace: to fall from a state of grace into sin; figurative to become disgraced, to lose favour or popularity. Also: †fall away from grace. [After post-classical Latin excidere a gratia (Vulgate, e.g. in Galatians 5:4, the passage translated in quot. c1384).] ΚΠ c1384Fallen awey fro grace [see sense 1e]. 1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 12 Many of them have proved practicall Arminians, practising falling from Grace. 1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 516/2 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon, that ‘Nemo’ is a backslider; that he has fallen from grace. 1933 Musical Times Dec. 1085/2 She is evidently regarded as one who, having left the Corporation, has totally lapsed from grace. 1968 S. Runciman Great Church in Captivity v. 251 The twelfth article teaches that sinners who have lapsed from grace can receive it again if they repent. 2012 New Yorker 27 Feb. 16/2 George Valentin, a star with Fairbanksian dash, struggles to hold back the onset of sound, and, in so doing, falls from grace. < as lemmas |
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