agape

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /əˈɡeɪp/    美 /əˈɡeɪp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others. uncountable
  2. Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others. uncountable
  3. A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist. countable
形容词 adj.
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
    — […] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.
  2. Wide open.
    — With his mouth agape and his hands clenched, Rufus Dawes, incapable of further speech, made a last effort to nod assent, but his head fell upon his breast; the next moment, the flickering light, the gloomy prison, the eager face of the doctor, and the astonished face of Vickers, vanished from before his straining eyes.
副词 adv.
  1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
    — Three of us--two biologists and I--were crouched behind a huge boulder at the water's edge and staring agape as the largest bear I ever saw came toward us
  2. Open wide.
    — Its mouth yawned agape

词形变化

more agape comparative most agape superlative more agape comparative most agape superlative agapae plural agapai plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agapeic agapeist agapeistic agapism agapist agapistic

词源

词源 1
From a- + gape. First known use by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).
词源 2
From Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē).
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