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词汇 holy-man
释义 holy man
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhəʊ.li ˌmæn/ us /ˈhoʊ.li ˌmæn/
a man who is a religious leader or who leads a very religious and pure life: 宗教领袖,教长;(虔诚无暇的)圣人
He was considered a holy man and his grave was known for producing healing miracles.他被看作圣人,其坟墓也因神奇的治愈力而闻名。
Imams, or Muslim holy men, give sermons at Friday prayers around the Islamic world.在伊斯兰国家里,阿訇也就是伊斯兰教的教长,每星期五在祈祷时布道。
On her deathbed she made her son promise to become a holy man. Becoming a priest was not easy.
The pope flew to Guatemala for the canonization mass for the 17th Century holy man Pedro de San Jose de Betancourt.
Millions of sadhus, or impoverished Hindu holy men, make the pilgrimage to bathe in the sacred river.
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Religious concepts: holiness

Examples of holy man


holy man
It is usually translated today as holyman or ascetic.
The holyman promised to make one for him if given six months and all the equipment that he needed.
Without positing any kind of facile causality, this culture of selfdiscipline nevertheless cannot be disentangled from colonial efforts towards taming the violence of the holyman.
He is a good and holyman, an example of non-violent forbearance.
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Then, all of a sudden, there comes from the desert some holyman.
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I myself have had a holyman coming to me with a request to be buried alive.
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The only question that worries me is whether it is the case of when the devil is sick, the devil a holyman would be.
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After being pursued by many armed assassins, and being grazed in the ear, he delivers the boy to another holyman.
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A princess for example or wealth, or making you the most holyman in the world?
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The robbers retreat in shame when they realise they can not harm this holyman.
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After that incident, the holyman did not just come back to the lake, but spent the night there.
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Stupas were originally more sculpture than building, essentially markers of some holy site or commemorating a holyman who lived there.
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He has to be first and foremost a holyman.
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The iconoscope picked up the image of an eastern holyman, who was praying for a higher power to sent someone to battle evil.
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Although he is still a holyman and dreams of reviving his monastic order, he has earned himself a reputation as a theatre critic.
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