单词 | romanitas |
释义 | romanitasn. The spirit or ideals of ancient Rome; admiration of or inclination towards these ideals; Romanism; Romanness. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > characteristic spirit or ethos > specific Normanism1647 Romanity1789 Romanism1861 American Way1883 romanitas1918 romanità1927 1877 R. W. Church Beginning of Middle Ages 54 There was a reconquest to Roman habits and sympathies,—to what a convenient medieval word designated as Romanitas or Latinitas.] 1918 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 4 So much had the world church retained the spirit of ‘Romanitas’, as Augustine called it, that when the Protestant revolt had [etc.]. 1930 F. G. Richmond tr. C. Guignebert Short Hist. Fr. People I. iii. 60 The idea of a power above that of the city, which is that of Romanitas, that of the Roman Empire itself. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 464/4 Amid the decline and fall of a civilization to which he owed both his religion and his romanitas, St Augustine inscribed..the charter of an enduring Christian culture. 1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation ix. 355 The manner is Imperial Roman, or rather, Imperial American, the self-important Beaux-Arts Romanitas of the White City at the Chicago World's Fair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1918 |
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