| 单词 | black robe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack Robe Black Robe n. Canadian (now historical) spec. (among North American Indians) a Christian priest, esp. a missionary; cf. black gown n. (b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > missionary Black Robe1811 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain I. 116 The Canadian savages call themselves Metoktheniakes, born of the sun, without allowing themselves to be persuaded of the contrary by the black robes, a name which they give to missionaries. 1840 N. P. Willis Canad. Scenery I. 24 They exhorted her to take it into the woods, where the blackrobes, as they called the Christian priests, would not be able to find her. 1907 J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian xvii. 189 ‘I will pray to those gods for you. Long ago..a Blackrobe..taught me the way,’ and she began... 'Twas the Lord's prayer! 1990 R. Graham God's Dominion i. 28 Though they [sc. the Indians] sensed that the Black Robes undervalued the world of nature for the world beyond—most evident in the white man's klutziness as hunter and explorer—they were impressed by the magic of clocks and writing. < as lemmas |
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