单词 | life-principle |
释义 | > as lemmaslife-principle life-principle n. ΚΠ a1672 P. Sterry Rise Kingdom of God (1683) 21 All things are seen; as growing up out of this Life-Principle, the Spirit; and Themselves, as Powers of this Life displaying themselves, and working in themselves. 1773 C. Fleming Diss. Self-murder 3 The life-principle, he knows, is not his own; because it operates wholly under another's direction. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cvii. 521 This same..cunning life-principle in him. 1950 L. S. Thornton Revelation & Mod. World iii. 90 Totality and identity are two aspects of one life-principle by which the creative Word calls into himself that response which he creates. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 241/1 Orenda , among the Iroquois Indians of North America, the term for the life-principle. Objects, animals, and human beings could possess it and medicine-men could draw upon it as a source of magical power. < as lemmas |
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