单词 | time-world |
释义 | > as lemmastime-world (b) With the sense ‘of time as distinct from eternity’ (cf. sense A. 33), as time-state, time-world, etc. ΚΠ 1811 S. E. Pierce Serm. Doctrinal, Exper. & Pract. Subj. xxii. 491 You are at present in a time-state, the miseries of which are great and real. 1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 8 166/1 At times I flatter myself the time will roll round, when we shall meet in this time-world again. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 95/1 Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish. 1855 M. S. G. Nichols Mary Lyndon xiii. 310 I learned..that the manifested God may become a devil in the subversions and evils of this time-sphere. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 4 That book which has, to us creatures of a day, though not to Him who wrote it as the Time-pattern of His timeless mind, neither beginning nor end. 1919 T. L. Vasvānī Krishna's Flute Introd. 6 History is, to my mind, neither an ‘illusion’ nor a stream of ‘becoming’; it is a time-vesture revealing some values of the Eternal. 1939 W. Saroyan in Hairenik Weekly 24 Sept. 5/2 Night was even more troublesome because then the time-body, the world-body, became the timeless body, the worldless-body, the universe-body. 2005 D. G. Riede Allegories of One's Own Mind 42 The surface..is the Carlylean time-vesture, the ideological character of the age, the conscience and public character of the poet. < as lemmas |
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