| 单词 | the age of reason |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe age of reason d. the age of reason. extracted from reasonn.1 (a) Chiefly Roman Catholic Church. The age at which a child is held capable of discerning right from wrong; (more generally) the age at which a person is held to be mature, responsible, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > legal maturity agec1275 elda1300 age of discretion1395 years of discretiona1402 discretionc1485 lawful years1548 age of consent1809 the age of reason1884 1650 J. Reynolds Flower of Fidelitie 2 At the age of seven years..the Physnomy of his face..did perfectly prognosticate that his Princely self would at the age of reason undoubtedly merit to be triumphantly crowned. 1705 W. Wall Hist. Infant-baptism II. x. 399 At what Age the Children of Christians should be baptiz'd; whether in Infancy, or to stay till the Age of Reason. 1786 tr. J. W. von Goethe Eleonora xxxiv. 146 No child before he attains the age of reason, and the faculties of comparing good and bad, ever thinks of death but as a terror that hangs over him. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 17/1 The age of reason is generally supposed to begin about the seventh year... At that time a child becomes capable of mortal sin. 1947 E. Sutton tr. J.-P. Sartre Age of Reason viii. 126 You have..reached the age of reason, my poor Mathieu…but you try to dodge that fact too, you try to pretend you're younger than you are. 1955 tr. G. de Maupassant Compl. Short Stories 1237 I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world. 2007 Canmore (Alberta) Leader (Nexis) 3 Oct. 17 Before a child reaches the age of reason, (7)..[he or she] thinks everything in life is about him or her. (b) Frequently with capital initials. The late 17th and 18th centuries in western Europe, during which time cultural life was characterized by faith in human reason; the Enlightenment (enlightenment n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1770 J. Beattie Ess. Truth iii. 497 The present state of the abstract sciences is a melancholy proof that what I say is true. This is called the age of reason and philosophy; and this is the age of avowed and dogmatical atheism.] 1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second v. 167 The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world. 1794 T. Paine (title) The age of reason; being an investigation of true and fabulous theology. 1860 J. H. Stirling Macaulay in Crit. Ess. (1868) 122 The up-lighting of the ‘age of reason’. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism i. 10 In process of time the age of reason had to go its way after the age of faith. 1902 G. K. Chesterton Twelve Types 129 Carlyle..denied every one of the postulates upon which the age of reason based itself. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism i. 61 The sanguine optimists of the Age of Reason. 1971 R. J. White Second-hand Tomb xviii. 200 You medieval scholars suffer from a double dose of spiritual pride where the Age of Reason is concerned. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 15/4 He belongs to an age of dissentients who have always been keen on parallels between themselves and the free-thinkers of the Age of Reason. < as lemmas |
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