| 单词 | public place of repentence |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspublic place of repentence place of repentance n. now historical (more fully public place of repentence) a conspicuous place, such as a seat, bench, or raised platform, formerly used in some Scottish churches for displays of repentance; cf. stool of repentance n. at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance penitent form1563 repenting stool1567 stool of repentance1581 place of repentance1582 repentance stool1591 repentance seat1771 cutty-stoola1774 Mercy seat1818 anxious seat1827 anxious bench1832 mourner's bench1834 mourner's seat1845 moaner's bench1929 1582 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 148 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) For nallis to naill the pilleris of the gavaill of the place of repentance. 1596 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. 866 The publick place of repentance is turned in a mocking. 1651 Ayr Presbytery Rec. in Little Sc. World (1894) iv. 43 The flooring and gisting to be directly the height of the place of repentance. 1710 T. Boston Serm. 13 July in Memoirs (1776) App. 3 What with fornications, what with adulteries, the place of repentence has been seldom empty since the planting of this parish. 1885 A. Edgar Old Church Life I. 287 When the scandal was great he had to mount an elevated stand, technically designated the public place of repentance. 2003 M. Lynch Edinb. & Reformation (new ed.) App. vii. 324 [He was] ordered to appear in the place of repentance April 1574 as a relapsed fornicator. < as lemmas |
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