单词 | self-evidencing |
释义 | self-evidencingadj. That intrinsically contains or provides evidence of its own truth or obviousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adjective] > evident without proof self-evidencing1632 self-evident1643 axiomatical1678 self-evidential1700 gratuitous1775 axiomatic1797 1632 E. Reynolds Explic. 110th Psalme Table of Contents sig. A6v Christ bringeth selfe-evidencing properties into the soule. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace vi. 118 The native clearness of self-evidencing principles. a1723 R. Claridge Tractatus Hierographicus (1724) v. 176 The Testimony of the Spirit is a self-evidencing Testimony. 1862 J. McCosh Supernat. ii. i. §3. 133 I believe that the truths revealed in Scripture are so self-evidencing [etc.]. 1890 Spectator 6 Sept. The self-evidencing character of intrinsic divinity. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 July 490/3 The authority of the Church was the guarantee of Scripture, which he [sc. Calvin] held..to be self-evidencing. 2001 R. Holloway Doubts & Love xii. 197 There is a basic core of belief at the basis of any praxis, but it can be kept simple and can be largely self-evidencing. Derivatives self-ˈevidencingly adv. in a self-evidencing manner; (also) self-evidently, obviously. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adverb] > self-evidently axiomaticallyc1643 self-evidently1665 self-evidencingly1677 postulationally1913 1677 F. Bampfield All in One 52 They will see cause to admire the Wisdom of Ælohim, who has so self-evidencingly put things into words. 1882 A. B. Grosart Spenser's Compl. Wks. I. 191 The Poet was self-evidencingly a man of moods. 1998 R. L. Reymond New Systematic Theol. Christian Faith i. 80 If the Bible, as the Confession declares, is self-evidencingly the Word of God, why do not all acknowledge it to be such? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1632 |
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