英语词汇“the whore of babylon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. figurative. Something regarded as sinful, corrupt, or idolatrous; esp. (frequently in biblical use) a corrupt, decadent, or idolatrous community or city; (in early use often) spec. (derogatory) the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, or Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Originally and frequently with allusion to the female figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 (see quot. c1384), as in the Whore of Babylon.During the Reformation, many Protestant commentators interpreted the figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 as a symbol of Papal Rome.scarlet whore: see the first element.

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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > corrupt community

whorec1384

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective

mother churchOE

mother kirkc1430

whore1530

Lady of Rome1574

Western Church1577

west1586

scarlet whore1590

Lady of Babylon1605

red letter1608

scarlet lady1807

scarlet woman1816

Latinism1920

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xvii. 1 The dampnacioun of the greet hoore [1611 King James Whore; 1881 R.V. harlot; L. meretricis]..with whiche kynges of erthe diden fornycacioun.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. i. 21 Hou is the feithful citee ful of dom maad an hoore [?a1425 Claud. gloss. that is, ful of hordom bi the synne of auoutrie, which cite kepte feithfulnesse of matrymonye bifore]?

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fv^v The greate baude the hore of babylon [sc. the Pope].

c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 342 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 86 Of antichristes fall I will..sum-thing tell; & of this howr, this leyder to hell.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xiii. sig. D1 That abhomynable whore of Babylon (Rome I meane).

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 139 I may say of Constantinople..; A painted Whoore.

1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,..To seise the widdow'd whore Pluralitie.

1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 11 But if her thoughts run foul, her mind's a Whore.

1704 C. Leslie Wolf Stript (ed. 4) 31 They call her [sc. the Church of England's] Episcopacy a Ragg of the Whore.

1743 H. Walpole Let. 3 Oct. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. lxxxvii. 257 He would have piqued himself on calling the Pope the w——e of Babylon.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vi. 127 Image worship, and surplices, and sic like rags o' the muckle hoor that sitteth on seven hills.

1949 N. Beverley All I could never Be ii. x. 276 Berlin was a strident city, a screaming city, dressed to kill, over-doped, over-drunk, over-sexed... Berlin, in short, was a whore of a city.

1978 C. Lacy Coming Home to China iii. 38 This was Shanghai, onetime ‘whore of the Orient’.

2007 Independent 5 Jan. 11/1 In those days the Roman Church was still the Whore of Babylon to many Englishmen.

单词	the whore of babylon
释义	> as lemmas the Whore of Babylon a. figurative. Something regarded as sinful, corrupt, or idolatrous; esp. (frequently in biblical use) a corrupt, decadent, or idolatrous community or city; (in early use often) spec. (derogatory) the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, or Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Originally and frequently with allusion to the female figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 (see quot. c1384), as in the Whore of Babylon.During the Reformation, many Protestant commentators interpreted the figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 as a symbol of Papal Rome.scarlet whore: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > corrupt community whorec1384 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective mother churchOE mother kirkc1430 whore1530 Lady of Rome1574 Western Church1577 west1586 scarlet whore1590 Lady of Babylon1605 red letter1608 scarlet lady1807 scarlet woman1816 Latinism1920 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xvii. 1 The dampnacioun of the greet hoore [1611 King James Whore; 1881 R.V. harlot; L. meretricis]..with whiche kynges of erthe diden fornycacioun. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. i. 21 Hou is the feithful citee ful of dom maad an hoore [?a1425 Claud. gloss. that is, ful of hordom bi the synne of auoutrie, which cite kepte feithfulnesse of matrymonye bifore]? 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fv^v The greate baude the hore of babylon [sc. the Pope]. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 342 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 86 Of antichristes fall I will..sum-thing tell; & of this howr, this leyder to hell. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xiii. sig. D1 That abhomynable whore of Babylon (Rome I meane). 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 139 I may say of Constantinople..; A painted Whoore. 1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,..To seise the widdow'd whore Pluralitie. 1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 11 But if her thoughts run foul, her mind's a Whore. 1704 C. Leslie Wolf Stript (ed. 4) 31 They call her [sc. the Church of England's] Episcopacy a Ragg of the Whore. 1743 H. Walpole Let. 3 Oct. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. lxxxvii. 257 He would have piqued himself on calling the Pope the w——e of Babylon. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vi. 127 Image worship, and surplices, and sic like rags o' the muckle hoor that sitteth on seven hills. 1949 N. Beverley All I could never Be ii. x. 276 Berlin was a strident city, a screaming city, dressed to kill, over-doped, over-drunk, over-sexed... Berlin, in short, was a whore of a city. 1978 C. Lacy Coming Home to China iii. 38 This was Shanghai, onetime ‘whore of the Orient’. 2007 Independent 5 Jan. 11/1 In those days the Roman Church was still the Whore of Babylon to many Englishmen. extracted from whoren. < as lemmas
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