godfearing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
  2. Devout; pious; very religious.

词形变化

more godfearing comparative most godfearing superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
godfearingly godfearingness

词源

From god + fearing, likely an alteration of Middle English goddfrihti (“god-fearing”, literally “god-frighty”) and god-friht (“god-fearing”) (whence modern English god-fright), from Old English godfyrht (“god-fearing”). Compare Old High German gotforht (“god-fearing”).
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