| 单词 | peculiar nation |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeculiar nation peculiar nation n. = peculiar people n. (in various senses). ΚΠ 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 Having chosen out one peculiar Nation (the Jewes) for his Subjects. a1791 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Poet. Wks. (1871) XII. 165 Moses form'd the church of old, And one peculiar nation join'd; Christ received into His fold The souls of all mankind. 1965 PMLA 80 367/1 Michael relates how God, determining to select a peculiar nation ‘from one faithful man to spring’, calls Abraham by a vision. < as lemmas |
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