dilectionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dilection (複数形 dilections)

1. (dated) love; loving kindness
   • 1554, Dr. Martin [ Stephen Gardiner? ], Treatise on the Marriage of Priestes

     These words mine, and thine, proceeded first of iniquitie, because men did not observe mutual and natural dilection.

   • 1586, John Harmar (translator), Master Bezaes sermons

     And this was the first testimony of the infinite dilection of God towards man.

   • 1614, John King, Vitis Palatina

     A bone not far from his heart, to put him in mind of dilection and love to the woman.

   • 1648, Robert Boyle, Discourse on Seraphick Love, published 1660

     So free is Christ's dilection, that the grand condition of our felicity is our belief.

2. (dated) choice

アナグラム

• centiloid