heart of grace

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌhɑːt‿əv ˈɡɹeɪs/    美 /ˌhɑɹt‿əv ˈɡɹeɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Chiefly preceded by get, give, take, etc.: courage or relief, especially when gained as a result of favour shown to one. archaic,uncountable
    — Therfore whan the Phariſeis ſavve them [the Sadducees] put to ſylence, and rebuked alſo for ignoraũce of ſcripture, they taking harte of grace againe, gather together, and ſet forwarde a certayne doctour of lawe, whiche ſhould got vnto Jeſus with a clerkly queſtion, that eyther he myght reproue hym of ignoraunce, orels he hymſelfe beare a waye the prayſe of learnyng.

词源

Uncertain, possibly related to take heart (“to be courageous; to regain one’s courage”). It is unclear whether the original term was heart of grace, or perhaps hart of grace, heart of grease or hart of grease (“hart of the season when fat”), or hart (heart) of grass (perhaps alluding to a horse taking heart when finding grass), and of is sometimes replaced by at. Later uses have been influenced by grace (“free and undeserved favour”).
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