| 单词 | true love waits |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrue love waits P2. Originally U.S. true love waits: (usually with capital initials) a slogan encouraging esp. young people to avoid sexual relations before marriage; frequently attributive, as true love waits campaign, etc.The slogan forms part of the pledge taken by members of True Love Waits (abbreviated TLW), a Christian organization formed by the Southern Baptist Convention in America in April 1993. ΚΠ 1993 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 21 Apr. 1/1 Nashville... The ‘True Love Waits’ campaign will be launched this week by Southern Baptists who are afraid ‘safe-sex’ messages are sending the wrong message to teens. 1993 N.Y. Times 21 June a12/1 Under the heading ‘True Love Waits’, the program's slogan, the..covenant card reads, ‘Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God,..to be sexually pure until the day I enter a covenant marriage relationship.’ 2001 D. W. Haffner in E. J. Dionne & M. H. Chen Sacred Places, Civic Purposes iii. 35 The Southern Baptists' True Love Waits program..revolves around young people taking virginity pledges. 2008 Times 13 Sept. 17/4 The craze for purity rings..providing yet another excuse to hit the mall, this time for a $200 gold band inscribed with ‘True Love Waits’. < as lemmas |
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