英语词汇athanasian wench的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Athanasian wench. Though it’s rarely used anymore in ev- eryday speech, this 18th-century slang for “a forward girl, ready to oblige any man that shall ask her” has an amusing origin. It alludes to the ecumenical Athanasian Creed, which takes its name from St. Athanasius, an exiled third-century Alexandrian bishop who was a pioneer in scientific theology. The English Book of Common Prayer includes the Athanasian Creed, and the term Athanasian wench arose when some wit pointed out that the familiar first words of the creed read quicunque vult, “Whosoever desires . . .”

词汇	athanasian wench
词源	Athanasian wench. Though it’s rarely used anymore in ev- eryday speech, this 18th-century slang for “a forward girl, ready to oblige any man that shall ask her” has an amusing origin. It alludes to the ecumenical Athanasian Creed, which takes its name from St. Athanasius, an exiled third-century Alexandrian bishop who was a pioneer in scientific theology. The English Book of Common Prayer includes the Athanasian Creed, and the term Athanasian wench arose when some wit pointed out that the familiar first words of the creed read quicunque vult, “Whosoever desires . . .”
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