单词 | third heaven |
释义 | > as lemmasthird heaven third heaven n. [compare post-classical Latin tertium caelum (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek τρίτος οὐρανός (New Testament); chiefly with reference to 1 Corinthians 12:2 (compare quot. c1384) (this is a Christian concept and apparently not related to the seventh heaven of Judaism, although English seventh heaven n. is used in a similar way)] the abode of God (as opposed to the visible sky and the region of space beyond it); (figurative) a place or state of supreme bliss (now rare); cf. seventh heaven n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] blissc1175 Edena1225 heaven bliss?c1225 joyc1275 blessedheada1300 blissfulheada1340 third heavenc1384 paradisec1395 benisona1400 blessednessa1400 heavena1413 jocundnessc1426 everlastingness1434 jocundityc1450 beatitudea1492 beatification1502 blessedfulness1526 beautitude1578 Elysiuma1616 suavitya1617 seventh heaven1786 heaven of heavens1885 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. xii. 2 I woot a man in Crist..rauyschid til to the thridde heuene [L. ad tertium caelum]. c1480 (a1400) St. Paul l. 948 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 56 Paule..thocht þat he was rewyst ewine..to þe thred hewyne & syne in paradis. 1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. A.vv Sainct Paule desired to knowe nothing but Christ crucified, after he had ben rapt into the thirde heauen. 1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iv. xvii. 390 Now likewise is Le Valley (in his conceit and minde) rapt up into the third Heaven of joy, in injoying his faire and sweet wife Martha. 1748 J. Wesley Let. 22 Mar. (1931) II. 140 I no more imagine that I have already attained, that I already love God with all my heart, soul, and strength, than that I am in the third heaven. 1808 L. Stuart Let. 6 Feb. in D. Hewitt Scott on Himself (1981) 91 I have read Marmion twice to all this family; every one delighted but the young people in the third Heaven. 1899 R. Tayler in R. J. Thomson Fiddler's Almanac (1985) 9/1 Sam's big brown whiskers rolled and tumbled in ecstacy on his fiddle, as he..reveled in the third heaven of ‘Arkansas Traveler’. 1989 Speculum 64 399 Paul ascended to the third heaven but returned to endure the assaults of the flesh. < as lemmas |
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