| 单词 | psychomachia |
| 释义 | psychomachia|saɪkəʊˈmɑːkɪə|
Also (now less frequently) psychomachy |ps-, saɪˈkɒməkɪ|.
[ad. late L. psȳchomachia ‘conflict of the soul’ (title of a poem of Prudentius c 400); cf. Gr. ψυχοµαχία ‘fight for life’ (Polybius); f. Gr. ψυχή life, soul + µάχη fight.]
Conflict of the soul.
1629Gaule Holy Madnesse 112, I haue prophesied the number, order, and event of a Mysticall Pseuchomachie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Psychomachy, a war betwixt the soul and body. 1658Phillips, Psychomachy, a conflict, or war of the Soul.
[1927H. Waddell Wandering Scholars i. 20 In his most famous and most considerable work, the Psychomachia, the Battle of the Soul, he [sc. Prudentius] has done more than set the stage for the struggle between the spirit and the flesh. ]1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love ii. 55 The favourite theme of the Middle Ages—the battle of the virtues and the vices, the Psychomachia, the bellum intestinum, the Holy War. Ibid. 73 A good man, even in a panegyric, can now be good only as a result of a successful psychomachy. 1954― Eng. Lit. in Sixteenth Cent. i. i. 92 ‘Bewtie and the Prisoneir’ is a neat but slightly frigid psychomachy. 1955D. Davie Brides of Reason 22 There were minds Aware of themselves, and figuring this In psychomachia. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 1353/1 Ruskin's criticism..becomes a psychomachia dramatizing his own mental state. |
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