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单词 Antichrist
释义

Antichrist

noun

An·​ti·​christ
ˈan-tē-ˌkrīst,
-ˌtī- How to pronounce Antichrist (audio)
variants or less commonly antichrist or Anti-Christ or anti-Christ
1
: one who denies or opposes Christ
specifically : a great antagonist expected to fill the world with wickedness but to be conquered forever by Christ at his second coming
2
used in an exaggerated way to describe a person regarded as a powerful and malevolent adversary
usually used with the
With time this contrast hardened into hacker iconography. Gates was the anti-Christ, a man whose corporate stranglehold on the software industry had left it awash in ugly products. Robert Wright

Word History

Etymology

Middle English anticrist, from Old English & Late Latin; Old English antecrist, from Late Latin Antichristus, from Greek Antichristos, from anti- + Christos Christ

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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