| 单词 | physical evil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphysical evil a. In the widest sense: that which is the reverse of good; whatever is censurable, mischievous, or undesirable. Also with adjective: moral evil, physical evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] > in widest sense illa1300 evil1382 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iii. 5 Ȝe shul ben as Goddis, knowynge good and yuel. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 939 Y made eville & good to you knowen. 1559 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 153 I, Sir Willm Paynter..wt all vnderstanding of good and evell, make this my last will. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. iii. 5. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 284 All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee..All partial Evil, universal Good. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 29 Dec. 409 Almost all the moral Good which is left among us, is the apparent Effect of physical Evil. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The most serious difficulty lies in accounting for the permission of moral evil or guilt. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xviii. 290 The Christian, which ever recognizes the reality of evil. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 180 Evil is of two sorts, evil of sin, and evil of punishment. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 42 Moral evil is a broad black fact. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vii. 269 The greatest of all mysteries—the origin of evil. < as lemmas |
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