英和和英

名詞

uprendering (uncountable)

1. A yielding or rendering up.
   • 1875, Mary Rossiter, Mildred Gower and Other Poems (page 169)

     […] it was the melody / The harp makes when the wind mysteriously / Sweeps harshly o'er its strings; it was the heart's / Uprendering of its treasures, when its depths / Were tempest-stirr'd and ravaged.

   • 1911?, John Huntley Skrine, Creed and the Creeds: Their Function in Religion

     This reciprocal uprendering of the selfhood, this altar-rite which is answered from heaven, this sacrifice met by sacrifice, is what we propose to mean when we use the single word, sacrifice, as the significant name for Life.