| 单词 | poorness of spirit |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoorness of spirit b. figurative, esp. in poorness of spirit. Cf. poor adj. 1c. ΚΠ ?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 85 To schew hem meknesse and porenesse, to stoppe pride. a1563 J. Bale Johan Baptystes Prechynge (1985) 37 Ye shall se Christ here submyt hymselfe to Baptym..in most meke humble wyse, In poornesse of sprete that we shuld folowe hym. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 264 In pouernesse of spyrit is spedfullest hele, And hertes of heynesse harmeþ þe soule. 1729 H. Carey Poems on Several Occasions 80 What I abhor, and esteem as a Curse, Is poorness of Spirit, not poorness in Purse. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 344/1 I never could see no ‘poorness of spirit’, come to git at 'em. 1921 F. J. C. Hearnshaw Mediæval Contrib. Mod. Civilisation ii. 74 His substitution for the renunciation of all earthly wealth of that poorness of spirit which appropriates nothing but holds all in trust. 1956 R. C. Petry Christian Eschatol. & Social Thought iii. 60 It is the penitent, enemy-loving poorness in spirit that the Beatitudes proclaim as the way to the kingdom and its joyous, corporate life. < as lemmas |
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