单词 | spoiled nun |
释义 | > as lemmasspoiled nun d. spoiled nun, spoiled priest, a nun or priest who has repudiated her or his vocation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > that has renounced spoiled nun1904 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > spoiled spoiled priest1904 1904 S. Joyce Dublin Diary (1962) 26 He is the spoiled priest to his finger tips. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 36 He had heard his father say that she was a spoiled nun. 1951 A. Mizener Far Side of Paradise 307 The novel should do this. Show a man who is a natural idealist, a spoiled priest. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 May 593/1 Romantic wickedness (or, in O'Flaherty's own spoiled-priest phrase, ‘romantic sin’). < as lemmas |
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