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单词 antichristian
释义

antichristian

See also: anti-Christian

English

Alternative forms

  • anti-Christian

Etymology

From Antichrist, but later reinforced and influenced by anti- + Christian.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /antɪˈkɹɪstɪən/

Adjective

antichristian (comparative more antichristian, superlative most antichristian)

  1. Pertaining to Antichrist.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
      it was first establisht and put in practice by Antichristian malice and mystery on set purpose to extinguish, if it were possible, the light of Reformation, and to settle falshood; little differing from that policie wherewith the Turk upholds his Alcoran, by the prohibition of Printing.
    • 1884, Justin A. Smith, Commentary on the Revelation, page 240:
      They gave their power and authority to the beast—lent themselves to the support of the antichristian usurpation; prompted to this partly by superstitious reverence for the spiritual authority it claimed, and partly, perhaps chiefly, by political aims and exigencies.
    • 1990, Christopher Hill, Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England, page 92:
      To oppose the gathering of churches was described as siding with Antichrist in a pamphlet of 1644. Separation from an antichristian church was permissible.
    • 1995, Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600–1640, page 121:
      Thus Articles 78 and 80, which unequivocally asserted the pope's antichristian nature, were among the Irish Articles revoked in 1634.
  2. Alternative form of anti-Christian

Translations

Noun

antichristian (plural antichristians)

  1. Alternative form of anti-Christian
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