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单词 cardiphonia
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cardiphonian.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek καρδία , -phonia comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek καρδία heart (see cardia n.) + -phonia comb. form.Popularized as the title of a collection of letters published by the English clergyman John Newton (1725–1807): see quot. 1781. The term seems to have been suggested to him by the poet William Cowper (1731–1800), who was his parishoner at Olney in Buckinghamshire and with whom he collaborated in writing an influential volume of hymns: see quot. 1780.
Obsolete.
The expression of an author's or speaker's most heartfelt feelings.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > seat of the emotions > [noun] > breast or heart > utterance of the heart
cardiphonia1780
1780 W. Cowper Let. 4 July (1979) I. 360 Cardiphonia or the Utterance of the Heart... My dear Friend—It is difficult to find a Motto for a Book containing almost as many Subjects as Pages... Horace and my Memory are the only Motto:mongers I am possessed of... The latter..has at last supplied me with one that I hope will please you.
1781 J. Newton (title) Cardiphonia; or, The utterance of the heart.
1881 Contemp. Rev. 330 The work [In Memoriam]..became at once a text-book and a cardiphonia.
1908 G. T, Coster Points from my Jrnl. 24 At the end of his prayers, true cardiphonia, the slow-spoken reverential ‘Amen’ seems to review and renew all the many supplications.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021).
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