peacemaker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes; one who engages in peacemaking.
    — Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
  2. Catachresis for pacemaker.
    — Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]

词形变化

peacemakers plural

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词源

Compound of peace + maker.
First attested in the Tyndale Bible from 1526, as a translation of Koine Greek εἰρηνοποιοί (eirēnopoioí, “peacemaker”), a hapax legomenon found in the New Testament. (The Wycliffe Bible from 1395 instead uses "pesible men", to translate Latin pacifici from the Vulgate)
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