词汇 | oblation |
词源 | oblation [LME] Until brought back to public notice by Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials books, oblation was a rather obscure word meaning an offering made for the use of the Christian Church. It comes via French oblacion as well as directly from Late Latin oblationem from oblatus, a form serving as a part participle of Latin offerre ‘to offer’. |
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