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Holy Simplicity Express. Naive, kind, unsophisticated person. [ Shuisky (one): ]

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Holy simplicity!- Wed. Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: "I see right through you, You are one with the others!" And meanwhile, Whatever I say, takes everything for the truth, He is afraid of us, but threatens us ... Gr. A. Tolstoy. Prince Boris. 3. Shuisky. Wed (The word "holy ...

Holy simplicity- gullible, simple-heartedness, innocence, simplicity, innocence, naivety, gullible, ingenuousness, innocence, simple-heartedness, simplicity Dictionary of Russian synonyms. holy simplicity n., number of synonyms: 11 ingenuity ... Synonym dictionary

Holy simplicity- see O holy simplicity! Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. Moscow: Locky Press. Vadim Serov. 2003 ...

Holy simplicity!- Wed. ...Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: I see right through you, You are for one with the others! And meanwhile, Whatever I say, takes everything for the truth, He is afraid of us, but threatens us ... Gr. A. Tolstoy. Prince Boris. 8. Shuisky. Wed (The word holy simplicity) used ... ...

Holy simplicity- Razg. Iron. About a naive, simple-minded, artless person. /i>

Holy simplicity- About a naive person... Dictionary of many expressions

O holy simplicity!- From Latin: O sancta simplicitas! (o sancta simplicitas). Legend attributes these words to Jan Hus (1371-1415), the leader of the Czech national liberation movement. Sentenced by the church council as a heretic to be burned, he is, as is commonly believed ...

O holy simplicity!

simplicity- n., f., use. comp. often Morphology: (no) what? simplicity, why? simplicity, (see) what? simplicity than? simplicity, what? about simplicity 1. If you talk about the simplicity of any action, decision, etc., you mean that this action, ... ... Dictionary of Dmitriev

simplicity- Akim simplicity .. Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. under. ed. N. Abramova, M .: Russian dictionaries, 1999. simplicity, lightness, modesty; democratic, artless, diminutive, inconspicuous, natural, holy ... ... Synonym dictionary

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Razg. Express. Naive, kind, unsophisticated person. [ Shuisky (one): ] Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: “I see right through you. You are one with the others!" And meanwhile, whatever I say, everything takes for the truth(A. K. Tolstoy. Tsar Boris). - Translation of the Latin expression sancta simplicitas. Lit .: Dictionary of the modern Russian literary language. - M.; L., 1961. - T. 11. - S. 1404. Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language. - M.: Astrel, AST A. I. Fedorov 2008

Meanings in other dictionaries

holy spark

SPARK OF GOD (GOD) from whom, in whom. Obsolete Express. 1. Talent, outstanding ability. It seems to me that he is a very good literary critic, he has a divine spark (S. Kovalevskaya. Letter to A. Sh. Leffer, March 1888). 2. Impulses of noble feelings, high aspirations. People were moved not by bureaucratic formalism, not by service diligence, but by that noble inspiring force, which is called the spark of God ...

holy truth

Express. About what is unshakable, indestructible, eternal. It is necessary to disassemble much, How will you begin to rip off the bark of rudeness from people. So that they don’t lose their good qualities with her ... About this saint’s truth, there would be great speeches for a whole book (Krylov. Chervonets). Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language. - M.: Astrel, AST A. I. Fedorov 2008 ...

holy of holies

Book. High The most precious, cherished, secret. Shatilov entered the laboratory, cautiously looking askance at Karevskaya, who usually could not stand the intrusion into her “holy of holies” and unceremoniously escorted the curious out (V. Popov. Steel and Slag). - Original: part of the Temple in Jerusalem, where only the high priest could enter. Lit .: Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language / Edited by prof. D. N. Ushakova. - ...

Wed Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: "I see right through you, You are one with the others!" And meanwhile, Whatever I say, takes everything for the truth, He is afraid of us, but threatens us ... Gr. A. Tolstoy. Prince Boris. 3. Shuisky. Wed (The word "holy ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

Gullible, simple-heartedness, innocence, simplicity, innocence, naivety, trusting, ingenuousness, innocence, simple-heartedness, simple-mindedness Dictionary of Russian synonyms. holy simplicity n., number of synonyms: 11 ingenuity ... Synonym dictionary

See Oh holy simplicity! Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. Moscow: Locky Press. Vadim Serov. 2003 ...

Wed ...Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: I see right through you, You are for one with the others! And meanwhile, Whatever I say, takes everything for the truth, He is afraid of us, but threatens us ... Gr. A. Tolstoy. Prince Boris. 8. Shuisky. Wed (The word holy simplicity) used ... ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary

Holy simplicity- Razg. Express. Naive, kind, unsophisticated person. [Shuisky (one):] Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: “I see right through you. You are one with the others!" Meanwhile, whatever I say, everything takes for the truth (A.K. Tolstoy. Tsar Boris). Latin translation ... ... Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language

Razg. Iron. About a naive, simple-minded, artless person. /i> Tracing paper from lat. sancta simplicitas. BMS 1998, 475; FSRYA, 365 ... Big dictionary of Russian sayings

Holy simplicity- About a naive person... Dictionary of many expressions

From Latin: O sancta simplicitas! (o sancta simplicitas). Legend attributes these words to Jan Hus (1371-1415), the leader of the Czech national liberation movement. Sentenced by the church council as a heretic to be burned, he is, as is commonly believed ... Dictionary of winged words and expressions

O holy simplicity!- wing. sl. This expression is attributed to the leader of the Czech national movement, Jan Hus (1369-1415). Sentenced by a church council, like a heretic, to be burned, he allegedly uttered these words at the stake when he saw that some kind of old woman (according to another ... ... Universal additional practical explanatory dictionary by I. Mostitsky

Exist., f., use. comp. often Morphology: (no) what? simplicity, why? simplicity, (see) what? simplicity than? simplicity, what? about simplicity 1. If you talk about the simplicity of any action, decision, etc., you mean that this action, ... ... Dictionary of Dmitriev

Akim simplicity .. Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. under. ed. N. Abramova, M .: Russian dictionaries, 1999. simplicity, lightness, modesty; democratic, artless, diminutive, inconspicuous, natural, holy ... ... Synonym dictionary

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Holy simplicity Chekhov Anton Pavlovich. The stories included in this collection were written by Anton Pavlovich in different years, but they are dedicated to one thing - the beauty and inescapability of God's world, the purity of simple believing hearts. That is why in…
Holy simplicity, A.P. Chekhov. The stories included in this collection were written by Anton Pavlovich in different years, but are dedicated to the beauty and inescapability of God's world, the purity of simple believing hearts. That is why in…

Where did the proverb, so popular among the poor, but far from real life, come from? with a cute paradise and in a hut? Maybe this is the moral of a fairy tale?
At the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the poet N. M. Ibragimov lived in Russia, singing about the simple, healthy and joyful life of the peasants. At the end of his life, he published poems called "Russian Song". There were lines like this:
Don't look for me rich
You are not nice to me.
What do I, what are your chambers?
With a sweet paradise and in a hut!
One of the folk composers set these verses to simple music - and it turned out to be a very popular song. Now both the melody and even its words are almost forgotten, but the last line, apparently, has sunk into the soul of the Russian people so much that it lives to this day.

Saltan

Pushkin has "The Tale of Tsar Saltan". Where did he get such a strange name for the hero of a Russian fairy tale - Saltan?
Pushkin translated a folk tale into verse, which told about events from the life of a distant eastern country where sultans (saltans) ruled. The great poet simply took a common noun and used it as his own. And so it appeared Saltan.
By the way, in another Pushkin tale - about the golden cockerel - the eastern origin of the queen is indicated even more specifically: Shemakhanskaya. The fabulously rich city of Shamakhan - one of the centers of silk production in the East (the territory of present-day Azerbaijan) - has been mentioned since ancient times in epics, chronicles, and "walkings".

greasy joke

Why are some anecdotes, jokes and witticisms called greasy?
Certainly not from the fact that they are pronounced with a piece of lard in their mouth.
I think an epithet sebaceous appeared because the impression of such jokes is ambivalent. On the one hand, it is something greasy and nauseating, and on the other, dirty and muddy. Let's remember similar-sounding French sale- "dirty" and German sal- "muddy".

Sausage

We know the word well sausage. But it's obviously a diminutive. So there must be a word sardel. What is it?
Many will be surprised, but sardel- this is a juvenile herring, which was usually caught off the coast of the island of Sardinia, that is, a sardine. In this form, the Russian language adopted the Italian word sardella(from Latin sardine- "fish caught off the Sardinian coast").
How this honorable name passed into the name of fat sausages, God only knows. Maybe, according to the principle: the best fish is sausage?

sardonic laughter

What's happened sardonic laughter? How is it different from ordinary laughter?
It is a maliciously mocking, sarcastic laugh.
The expression itself is found in Homer in the Odyssey. Its origin has long been associated with the island of Sardinia, where poisonous grass allegedly grew ( Sardonia herba). People who ate it died, and their faces were distorted with terrible grimaces, while it seemed to an outside observer that they were laughing.

Shake off

Often in cases where someone has sold or given a thing that is obviously worthless to someone, they say that he offended. Where did such a strange word come from?
Initially shake off meant "to pick up something with a hook." In a figurative sense - "pull up to yourself." Later, it acquired a negative connotation and began to mean "to steal, steal." But why today it has the opposite meaning is a mystery to me. Probably, this example should also be attributed to linguistic curiosities.

Holy simplicity

There is an expression Holy simplicity, but there is another thing: simplicity is worse than theft. Well, folk wisdom contradicts itself?
Do you know who said the phrase Holy simplicity? Jan Hus. There was such a Czech preacher and church reformer in the 15th century. He was raised to the stake by the Catholic church council as a dangerous heretic, an enemy of the true church. Hus was placed on top of the woodpile and a fire was kindled. The fire did not flare up well, and the audience, who came to the spectacle, got bored. Then some old woman arrived, threw straws and fanned the flame. It was then, looking at her with tenderness, that Jan Hus uttered the immortal words: O sancta simplicitas! (Holy simplicity!).
Such simplicity, in my opinion, is really worse than theft. It would be better if that old woman stole something while idle onlookers stared at the fire.

Family

Is it true that the word family owes its origin to two words - the numeral seven and pronoun I, and thus is, as it were, a symbol of a friendly team of seven personalities?
Not true. Such exercises in amateur etymology, though often witty, have nothing to do with reality. In ancient times, the word family denoted household members, servants, not necessarily related by family ties. Moreover, this word was used to designate not even a tribal, but a certain territorial community of people. The words had the same meaning in the Baltic languages - Prussian and Lithuanian - seimin and šeimà, from which, by the way, the modern diet- meeting of deputies.

Burn the ships

Sometimes about someone who committed an irreversible act, they say that he burned the ships. I suspect there is some story behind this phrase. Which?
The story of the burned ships is very instructive. Everyone knows Homer's poem about the Trojan War. Plutarch also wrote about this war. It is in his work “On the Virtues of Women” that we find a story about how, after the fall of Troy, the Trojan women burned the ships of their husbands so that they could not shamefully escape, leaving them to be desecrated by the Danaans, Achaeans and other tribes. In the literal sense, they deprived their not very brave husbands of any possibility of retreat.

Sivka-Burka

I have always been intrigued by a phrase from a Russian folk tale: Sivka-Burka, prophetic kaurka, stand in front of me like a leaf in front of grass. What does this strange nonsense mean?
Sivka, burka, kaurka- This is an enumeration of the colors of horses. Everything is extremely transparent here: gray- "Gray", brown- “dark brown, chestnut”, brown- "light red". If you remember, the horse was special, motley: "one hair is gold, the other is silver ..."
But the second part of the phrase really seems strange. But only for those who do not know that these words are part of an ancient pagan conspiracy, the purpose of which is to give the speaker these words additional magical power. Grass in this case acts as a kind of unconditional and abstract power, in front of which one leaf has no choice but to stand still and tremble at the order.

blue stocking

A feminist woman is sometimes called blue stocking. Where did this nickname come from?
This phrase had nothing to do with the women's movement. So the British in the XVIII century called the scientist Benjamin Stellingfleet, who, out of stubbornness, wore blue stockings that had long gone out of fashion. This eccentric was also known for being the soul of the company in the house club of the extremely progressive Lady Montague. Byron, however, deciding to ridicule these meetings, where ladies thought on an equal footing with men, called them blue stockings- Blue stockings. And so it happened: as soon as the lady opens her mouth to show her literacy, she is immediately in blue stockings determine.

Tit

Why are the small ubiquitous birds of our cities and towns called tits? After all, in their plumage there is not a single blue feather.
As for the plumage of Sinicia, a reservation is necessary here. In one of the representatives of this species of passerines - blue tit - the feathers of the back and head still have a bluish tint (in fact, hence its name).
However, the common name of the species is tits- does not come from color. It is sonorous. Remember their spring song. As soon as the first warm rays melt the snowdrifts, everywhere you can hear: “blue-blue, blue-blue!”
In a similar way, our ancestors gave nicknames to other birds. For example, a bird whose song Ukrainians parody as “whose are you? Whose are you?" is called siskin.

Blue bird

Often a strange image is used as a symbol of an unattainable dream - Blue bird. I have read all the fairy tales, but there is no such character anywhere. Where is he from?
In 1908, a play by Maurice Maeterlinck was staged at the Moscow Art Theater under the title Blue bird. According to the plot, the woodcutter's children are looking for this fabulous bird of happiness, but they can't find it in any way. It was then that this image became a symbol of elusive, but tangible happiness.
By the way, those who believe that the blue bird does not exist in nature are mistaken. This thrush is found in the Himalayas and is really hard to see. But whether a meeting with him brings happiness - I don’t know.

Furrier

People who work with leather are called furriers. Where did this profession name come from? After all, it would be more natural to call them tanners.
Profession name furrier derived from the old Russian word soon, which in modern language has become hide. Literally furrier- "a person who works with skins." By the way, one of the furriers' items - boots - was once called furry. It remains to add that the word soon widespread not only in the Slavic languages, where in most cases it remained unchanged (in Czech skora- simply "skin"), but also in other Indo-European (for example, Latin scortum- "skin").
Skin And soon related words shell, bark and many others.

Skoromny

I completely understand why low-fat food is called lean- it is eaten in a religious fast. But why is food opposed to it? humble? What does this word literally mean?
Word soon? rum once they called not only the food that was allowed to be eaten on ordinary days (not on fasting), but also just fat or oil. Proto-Slavic skormy"fat" etymologists bring together with kürma"feed". In other words, literally soon and meant food. If this meaning were preserved in modern language, the expression soon? me food would be an example of a tautology.

Tablet

When they talk about the commandments given to mankind by God through Moses, they mention some tablets. I always thought they were boards with inscriptions. Why are they called tablets?
Indeed, in the Slavic texts of the Bible, tablets from the ark of Moses, on which the commandments were engraved, are called tablets. Linguists usually compare this word with Serbo-Croatian crying"cut". The Slavs called tablets evenly cut or carved from stone slabs, thus distinguishing them from raw stones.

Scrupulous

What a strange word scrupulous. Kind of painful. Where did it come from?
Scruple(Latin scrupulum, from scrupulus"small sharp stone") is an obsolete unit of weight that was once used by apothecaries. The weight of one scruple, if converted into a modern system of measures, is 1.244 grams. That's why scrupulously and means "with special precision".
In fairness, I note that there was still an English scruple. He weighed a little more - 1.296 grams. Which does not detract from what was said above ...

Slavs

What is the etymology of the word Slavs? You often hear how it is produced from glory, but it seems too pathetic to me.
Even a simple enumeration of all hypotheses about the origin of the common name of the peoples of this language branch would take dozens of pages. How many etymologists, so many versions, and no one can offer an acceptable answer to the question posed.
Connection Slavs - glory no one, except for the Slavophiles, has ever been seriously considered. The opposition looks more or less convincing Germans - Slavs. As you know, our ancestors called foreigners who spoke an incomprehensible language Germans("dumb"). The neighboring tribes, too, apparently, did not remain in debt: for example, the Goths had a word Slavan- be silent, be dumb. However, this witty interpretation does not explain in any way the presence on the territory of the settlement of the Slavs of a number of rivers with suspiciously similar names: Slovutich, Glory, Slavitsa, Slavnitsa... And the presence in the Balto-Slavic environment of the tribe sklavins, which allegedly gave rise to the appearance in the modern Greek language of the word σχλ?βος [sklavos] - "slave of Slavic origin". Especially since sklavins much later one of the Prussian tribes was also named.
Very curious is the connection directly opposite to the above version. word - Slavs, but it is also unconvincing. There are even more exotic ones.
I will not give the whole series here, but only repeat: some one explanation of the origin of the word Slavs, which would suit all etymologists, does not yet exist.

horsefly

Where does the biting gadfly fly get such a strange name blind? Is he blinding anyone?
It is believed that this fly, having stuck to a person or animal, is so stunned by the taste of blood that it no longer sees anything around and, as it were, goes blind. At this point, you can safely remove it with your hand and crush it. If you, of course, wait for this moment.

Deadly sin

I have heard the expression many times seven deadly sins, but never met the enumeration of these faults. What sins are considered so unforgivable?
I will gladly list. These are envy, avarice, fornication, gluttony, pride, despondency and anger. It is these qualities, which are not inherent in any animal other than man, that are the root cause of all the crimes of the latter.
It should be noted that the set of mortal sins is not a dogma. They are not explicitly listed anywhere in Holy Scripture. Therefore, you can find another list: arrogance, stinginess, debauchery, anger, gluttony, envy and laziness.

Snob

What's happened snob? I would like to know more precisely who can be called that.
Snob it is worth mentioning anyone who likes to talk about objects that they have never seen before. In art, this is often called critics who judge what they themselves do not know how to do.
In fairness, I will give an interpretation of the word according to Ushakov's dictionary: snob- a person whose behavior and tastes are determined by the desire to keep up with fashion and constantly adhere to the manners of the bourgeois-aristocratic circle, the "high society".
In general, the word snob came to Russian from English snob, where it originally meant "shoemaker", and in a broad sense - "a person of low origin".
There is a version that the word comes from an abbreviated Latin expression sine nobilitas, i.e. "without nobility". The abbreviation "s.nob." at the end of the 18th century, they put in the list of passengers of ships against the names of people of simple origin, in order to distinguish them from more important people who were worthy to dine with the captain.

nightingale the robber

Appears in Russian epics nightingale the robber. Where does such a funny nickname come from? Because it whistles like a bird?
It is believed that a powerful Mordvinian robber who lived in the forests near Nizhny Novgorod in the 17th century served as the prototype of this character. And his name, quite real, - Nightingale, probably comes from Mordovian salams"steal". And it has nothing to do with the songbird. The Nightingale the Robber acquired the habit of climbing trees, as well as a passion for artistic whistling, already in folk art.

Solokha

N.V. Gogol has a character with a strange name in The Night Before Christmas Solokha. I haven't heard it anywhere else. What is this name?
As a proper name, Gogol used a common noun: solokha- “sloppy, unkempt girl; reckless woman." In some dialects, solohi meaning "witch".
It is believed that this word owes its appearance in the East Slavic languages to the name of Herod's stepdaughter Antipas Salome. The one who, as a reward for her erotic dances, demanded the head of John the Baptist.
There is a legend in Orthodox mythology. Allegedly, Salome went one winter to the Jordan River for water and fell into the hole. The edge of the ice cut off her head. As if the Lord punished her for John. If you do not know that in Israel there are no frosts that can freeze the rivers with ice, then this story could be believed. True, only if you do not take into account that princesses do not walk with buckets of water. But this has nothing to do with etymology.

Fourty

How to explain the presence of an unusual numeral in Russian Fourty? Other numerals ( twenty, fifty, sixty) directly indicate the number of tens (two, five, and so on). But the word Fourty like it doesn't say anything.
In the Old Russian language there was also a numeral four tenths. But Fourty gradually replaced it. This happened in the 11th or 12th century, when the contacts of our ancestors with the Varangians became more frequent. The Scandinavians used to pay with sable skins and the word serkr meant 200 skins.
Try to pronounce it serkr. Your language will sooner or later transform itself into Fourty.
So the foreign word took root in Russia. At first, in our country it meant “40 sable skins” - since our ancestors, unlike the Varangians, sold sable precisely forty? mi(an average of 40 skins was used to make a fur coat). And then it began to be used to count other objects.
Homegrown etymologists sometimes associate the numeral with the name of a bird magpie. This is absolutely false. Fourty And magpie- different words. The name of the bird comes from the Old Slavonic svrchati- "make chirping sounds."

Pillar nobles

In Pushkin's "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish," the old woman wanted to be a pillar noblewoman. And who are pillar nobles? How did they differ from other nobles?
Pillar in Russia, nobles were called, whose descendants during the censuses of the 16th-17th centuries were listed in columns (genealogical books). In the XVIII-XIX centuries, pillar nobles did not have any privileges over representatives of new noble families (they appeared as a result of the award of personal or hereditary nobility for special merits, for length of service, by rank, by warrant). Therefore, the antiquity of the clan served exclusively as a source of pride for its representatives.
Personally, I don’t see any special nobility in the fact that the name of someone’s great-great-great-grandfather was written on paper earlier than others. And if you remember that the word itself nobles derived from gentry(that is, from the collective name of the people who served the princes and warriors - the grooms, bed-keepers and other courtyards), then the pompous swagger of their descendants, albeit columnar seems just ridiculous.

Strezhen

There is a song about Stenka Razin - he swims out from behind the island right to some rod. Where exactly did he swim?
Str?zhen- this is the middle of the river and at the same time its deepest (and, accordingly, navigable) place. Is the word directly close? today's kernel and originally meant "the core or inside of something", for example, the core of a tree. Both words were formed from Old Church Slavonic rod (rod).
There are also cognates in other Indo-European languages. For example, in Prussian there was a word strigeno- so the Prussians called the brain. And Swedish streke means literally the same as Russian rod- "deep place of the river with a fast current."
Unfortunately, today it is customary for us to use a foreign word to denote this concept. fairway.

Soubrette

What do they mean when they call a woman soubrette? Is it decent?
Pretty decent. Some might even take it as a compliment. Soubrette- simply a stage role, as respectable as a comedian, tragedian or travesty. This character is a frisky, crafty maid who, helping out the owners in their love adventures, does not forget about the arrangement of her own happiness. Remember at least "The Marriage of Figaro" by Beaumarchais or "The Servant of Two Masters" by Goldoni.
True, in the origin of the word itself soubrette some ambiguity can be seen: the French soubrette(which migrated to Russian) is formed from Provencal soubret- literally translated "cheeky".

Superstition

I don't really understand the meaning of the word superstition. Is this "faith in vain"?
In Old Russian there was an adjective sui- "vain, vain, empty" and adverb su?e- "in vain, in vain." Hence and bustle, bustle, bustle. And in a word half-eyed our ancestors called those whom we christened today onlookers.
Superstition- also this root. Literally - "false, empty faith." And to put it simply, the result of ignorance and a very tenacious relic of paganism.
The essence of superstition lies in the fact that supernatural significance is attached to natural things, due to which ordinary events seem almost a sign of fate. Take at least faith in omens: a meeting with a black cat - to trouble, a woman with an empty bucket - to demotion.

In fairness, it should be noted that some deeply religious people consider the worship of icons to be superstition. However, let's not intrude into the field of theology ...

Education

What meanings can the phraseological unit "holy simplicity" have?

January 3, 2018

The expression "holy simplicity" arose a long time ago under tragic circumstances. Its authorship is attributed to Jan Hus.

Who is Jan Hus?

Jan Hus was a preacher and inspirer of the Czech Reformation.

Born in 1371 into a family of peasants, he graduated from the university in Prague, later became a rector there, and from 1402 he was a priest and preacher in the Bethlehem chapel in the Czech capital.

Constantly made speeches, denounced the Catholic priesthood in acquisitiveness, trade in positions, indulgences.

His performances were very popular and attracted many people. The Catholic Church Council anathematized him and sent him to the stake. Jan Hus was 44 years old by that time.

When they were going to burn Jan Hus at the stake, an old woman came up with a bundle of brushwood, deciding to do a good deed, she put her own firewood into the fire.

Jan Hus, waiting for the flames to flare up, watched the woman and exclaimed, "Oh, holy simplicity!"

But researchers recorded the utterance of this phrase at a Christian cathedral as early as the 4th century. If Gus uttered it at the stake, he could have heard the phrase before, but thanks to him it became winged.

The Negative Meaning of "Holy Simplicity"

Often people, having good intentions, do things that cause more harm than help. This happens because of the limited views, short-sightedness. Here the expression "holy simplicity" is used in a negative sense. About simple-hearted and naive people who cannot cheat when it seems necessary, they can “light a fire” with the words of a harsh truth told at the wrong time.

Such situations often arise during the rescue of animals, when people who do not know their characteristics and behavior in nature undertake to help them, trying to feed them with sweets in the zoo.

Phraseologism "holy simplicity" can be used not only in an ironic, but also in a positive sense.

The simplicity of a holy man

“Holy simplicity” - this is what they say about a person who is pure, trusting, living with an open heart, sincerely believing in the kindness of the people around him, not looking for a dirty trick in their actions.

Saint Paul was distinguished by modesty, did not imagine anything about himself, followed Jesus in everything. When Saint Anthony was asked to cast out the demon, he refused, but sent those who asked to Paul. Saint Anthony said that only Paul, with his holy simplicity, is able to resist the evil spirit. And when the sick man was brought to St. Paul, the spirit cried out: “The simplicity of Paul casts me out!” - and left.

When using the expression "holy simplicity", one must distinguish when it is used to denote human stupidity and impudence, and when it is used to emphasize modesty and humility before God.

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Holy Simplicity Express. Naive, kind, unsophisticated person. [ Shuisky (one): ] Holy simplicity! Makes it clear: “I see right through you. You are one with the others!" And meanwhile, whatever I say, everything takes for the truth(A. K. Tolstoy. Tsar Boris). - Translation of the Latin expression sancta simplicitas. Lit .: Dictionary of the modern Russian literary language. - M.; L., 1961. - T. 11. - S. 1404.

Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language. - M.: Astrel, AST. A. I. Fedorov. 2008 .

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See what "Holy simplicity" is in other dictionaries:

Holy simplicity- see O holy simplicity! Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. Moscow: Locky Press. Vadim Serov. 2003 ...

Holy simplicity- Razg. Iron. About a naive, simple-minded, artless person. /i> Tracing paper from lat. sancta simplicitas. BMS 1998, 475; FSRYA, 365 ... Big dictionary of Russian sayings

Holy simplicity- About a naive person... Dictionary of many expressions

Books

Holy Simplicity, Chekhov A.P. The stories included in this collection were written by Anton Pavlovich in different years, but are dedicated to the beauty and inescapability of God's world, the purity of simple believing hearts. That is why in…

The expression is attributed to the leader of the Czech national movement, Jan Hus (1369-1415), who was sentenced by a church council, as a heretic, to be burned. It is believed that he uttered these words at the stake when he saw that some old woman, in ingenuous religious zeal, threw the brushwood she had brought into the fire.

Biographers of Hus, based on eyewitness accounts of his death, deny the fact that he uttered this phrase. The ecclesiastical writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 345-410) in his continuation of Eusebius' History of the Church reports that the expression "holy simplicity" was uttered at the First Council of Nicaea (325) by one of the theologians.

Source: N.S. Ashukin, M.G. Ashukina. Winged words: Literary quotations; Figurative expressions .. - M .: Fiction, 1987.

O holy simplicity! in foreign languages:

In English: Sweet simplicity!

In Latin: O sancta simplicitas!

Examples

(1860 - 1904)

"" (1885) - a story about a father (holy simplicity), to whom his son came - a successful and wealthy lawyer.

"" (1881): "They say that these are the best of the theater horses. They are hardly suitable for racing ... They love the theatrical business and (oh, equina simplicitas * !!) consider themselves indispensable members of the artistic corporation "

* oh, horse simplicity!! (lat.)

"Unnecessary Victory" (1882): "Oh, naivety! Sancta simplicitas! How to get a million?

(1826 - 1889)

"Poshekhonskaya antiquity" (1888), ch. 29: "One of the cherished formulas of that time was" Holy simplicity". There was something indisputable in her, and at the mention of her, one could only bow. But they used it indiscriminately and often mixed it with vulgarity and ignorance. This was a delusion that threatened with consequences of a very dubious nature. The peasantry suffocated under the yoke of slavery, but it was sancta simplicitas; the bureaucracy was mired in extortion, but even this was a kind of sancta simplicitas; ignorance, darkness, cruelty, arbitrariness dominated everywhere, but they also represented one of the forms sancta simplicitas. It was hard to breathe amidst these various manifestations of simplicity, but there was no reason to be held accountable."

(1828 - 1910)

"Anna Karenina" (1873 - 1877), part VI, chapter XXVII:, on Levin's naivety " O sancta simplicitas! said Stepan Arkadyevitch, briefly and clearly explaining to Levin what was the matter.

> attenuation

5 candor

3) purity of language, clarity, precision

6 dumtaxat

1) how much, because

2) only, no more (potestatem habere d. annuam C)

non d..., sed L etc. - not only but

3) at least at least

7 gracilitas

8 rusticitas

9 siccitas

10 simplicitas

11 subtilitas

4) subtlety, elegance (sententiarum C; columnae Vtr)

5) sophistication, wit (sermonis, disputandi C)

6) simplicity, clarity, precision (scriptoris, orationis C)

12 tenuitas

13 simplicitas

simplicitas simplicitas, atis f simplicity

14 Divide and impera

Divide and rule.

Latin formulation of the principle of imperialist policy, which arose already in modern times. In the form divide ut regnes, it is attributed to the French king Louis XI (Prosper Mérimée, "Chronicle of the reign of Charles IX". Preface.) or the Italian politician Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527).

The Roman divide et itnpera was the basic rule by which Great Britain managed to keep the Indian Empire in her possession for about a hundred and fifty years. (K. Marx, Rebellion in the Indian Army.)

No wonder our young people were driven into the Berlin guards. - This was done in order to set the provinces against each other, in order to use in the interests of the patriarchal-feudal despotism the national enmity between Germans and Slavs, as well as the local hatred of each tiny German province for all the middle provinces. "Divide et impera"! (F. Engels, ZeitungsHalle.)

There is no place for humility in politics, but only boundless simplicity (both holy and sly simplicity) can mistake the primordial police technique for humility: divide et impera, divide and conquer, yield the unimportant in order to preserve the essential, give with the left hand and take away with the right. (V. I. Lenin, Zemstvo Persecutors and Annibals of Liberalism.)

Divide et impera - there is a rule of the state, not only machiavellian (I accept this word in its national meaning). (A. S. Pushkin. tablettalk.)

I don't like your policy. In Machiavelli, you are no good with your divide... I can't agree to the fact that, following the example of Russian censorship, it is allowed to scold titular advisers and not to scold generals. You just don't want to hook Marx, so as not to spoil your attitude - good, - well, then leave Tessa and the company. (A. I. Herzen - M. A. Bakunin, 28. (16.) X 1869.)

When the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Vasilyevich III, put an end to the appanage system, independent princes, having lost their squads and possessions, joined the ranks of Moscow courtiers, already corrupted and enslaved. Regional interests turned into court interests, characters were crushed, and the time of localism began, an ugly phenomenon, a mixture of Western and tribal hierarchies with some kind of bureaucracy and generals. At first, this confusion of concepts and inconsistency of provisions contributed greatly to the strengthening of the supreme power, which used them, guided by the rule: divide et impera. (A. K. Tolstoy, The project of staging the tragedy "The Death of Ivan the Terrible".)

The police state is much more realistic than the latest humanists: it frankly put the question of subjugation and domination in the foreground, and since domination requires, first of all, division (that is, setting one part of the population against another, one class against another - divide et impera), then all attempts at binding, even if they come from some organs of the police state, inevitably fail. (A. A. Blok, The collapse of humanism.)

We know examples when a state, stubbornly refusing to conclude a non-aggression pact with one neighbor, wants to impose it on another neighbor with the same persistence, acting on the principle of "divide et impera" (divide and rule). (M. M. Litvinov, Conversation with the French journalist Sauerwein.)

15 O sancta simplicitas!

Oh, holy simplicity!

The phrase is attributed to the Czech reformer, the hero of the national liberation movement Jan Hus. According to legend, Gus, who was being burned at the stake, uttered these words when some old woman, out of pious motives, threw an armful of brushwood into the fire.

And Engels, with his characteristic cheerful irony, hails the last steps of world capitalism: fortunately, he says, there are still enough unplowed steppes left for things to continue in the same way. And good Mr. N-he [ N. F. Danielson (1852-1925) - economist, public figure of the populist direction. - auth. ] a propos de bottes [ Neither to the village, nor to the city; out of place (fr.) - auth. ] sighs about the old "peasant farmer", about "hallowed for centuries" ... the stagnation of our agriculture and all forms of agricultural bondage, which could not be shaken "neither specific disorder, nor Tatarism", and which has now begun - oh, horror! - to shake this monstrous capitalism in the most decisive way! O sancta simplicitas! (VI Lenin, Development of capitalism in Russia.)

Levin did not understand why it was necessary for a hostile party to ask to run for the leader they wanted to run for. - Oh, sancta sitnplicitas! said Stepan Arkadyevich, briefly and clearly explaining to Levin what the matter was. (L. N. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.)

One of the cherished formulas of that time was "Holy simplicity". There was something indisputable in her, and at the mention of her, one could only bow. But they used it indiscriminately and often mixed it with vulgarity and ignorance. This was already a delusion that threatened with consequences of a very dubious nature. The peasantry suffocated under the yoke of slavery, but on the other hand they were sancta simplicitas; the bureaucracy was mired in extortion, but even this was a kind of sancta simplicitas; ignorance, darkness, cruelty, arbitrariness dominated everywhere, but they also represented one of the forms of sancta simplicitas. It was hard to breathe amidst these various manifestations of simplicity, but there was no reason to be held accountable. ()

You claimed in response to that sermon that I knew who my anonymous advocate was. But it's not true! I'm not accusing you of lying - you probably just made a mistake. I still don't know the name of this person. - Bowing his head to one side, like a learned blackbird, the Gadfly looked at the cardinal, then leaned back in his chair and laughed loudly: O s-sancta simplicitas! Such innocence fits the Arcadian shepherdess! Didn't you guess? (Ethel Lilian Voynich, Gadfly.)

16 Sancta simplicitas

Holy simplicity.

The right to work, and not the sacred obligation of labor, the obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow (so that's what was hidden behind the "pure idea of labor"! The purely feudal idea of the "duty" of the peasant to get bread ... for the performance of his duties? About this the "holy" obligation is said to the horse that has been beaten and crushed by it); then, the allocation of labor and reward for it, all this agitation about a just reward for labor, as if labor itself in its fruits does not create this reward ["What is this?" asks Mr. Struve, "sancta simplicitas or something else?" Worse. This is the apotheosis of the obedience of a laborer attached to the land, accustomed to working for others for almost nothing].... (V. I. Lenin, The economic content of populism.)

One of the cherished formulas of that time was "holy simplicity". There was something indisputable in her, and at the mention of her, one could only bow. But they used it indiscriminately and often mixed it with vulgarity and ignorance. This was a delusion that threatened with consequences of a very dubious nature. The peasantry suffocated under the yoke of slavery, but on the other hand they were sancta simplicitas; the bureaucracy was mired in extortion, but even this was a kind of sancta simplicitas; ignorance, darkness, cruelty, arbitrariness dominated everywhere, but they also represented one of the forms of sancta simplicitas. (M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Poshekhonskaya antiquity.)

Get it, Ilka, a million! - And how to get a million? Ilka asked. - About naivety! Sancta simpletas! How to get a million? You can get it in various ways. Ways are hard and easy... (A.P. Chekhov, An Unnecessary Victory.)

The bonfire stifled Bruno's voice, uprooted Galileo's recantation, forced Descartes' cowardice. And that he fought against the book, does not prove this the fact that long after the executioner stopped raising the thinker to the stake, he continued to throw his weapon - the book. But the book won. And she won because for one enemy that the fire destroyed, she turned thousands into like-minded people. Before the book disappeared that sancta simplicitas, which kept the fire burning. (K. A. Timiryazev. From deed to word, from beast to man.)

Tolstoy not only overwhelmed me with his greatness, but also gave me aesthetic delight in the last days of his life. But everything together is so beautiful that it becomes scary to remain without him in this world ... The clergy, the synod, priests and elders convince me of this even more. What a servile role they play: “he” dies and thinks that he is alone (sancta simplicitas), while the priests, in order to get out of a stupid situation, fawn, look for backdoors in order to somehow reconcile and pour communion into the dying. (K. S. Stanislavsky - L. A. Sulerzhitsky, November 1910.)

17 simplicitas

1) clarity, simplic. legibus amica (§ 3 I. 3, 2. cf. § 7 I. 2, 23). 2) simplicity, stupidity (1. 1 pr. D. 4, 3. 1. 3 pr. D. 4. 6).

18 PARTICULARE (PARTICULAR)

Special, separate, private. Albert the Great considers “it is not true ... that in particular things simplicity is found in the following way: in every thing, the universal comes from a part of the communicated form, and the particular comes from a part of the substance of this form, which is incommunicable and fits only one, and, since the beginning of communication is found in all perfect natural things otherwise than in the first reason, Boethius says that "every thing has something that is, and something that is this, and every thing is this and that." But we often said that the abstraction that takes place in the intellect is an abstraction from the particular, and not always from matter, according to the fact that "matter" is taken strictly as the subject of change and movement: thus, for example, "a log [in general]" is abstracted from "this log" and "intellect" from "this intellect". When I say "sky," I name the universal form, and when I say "this sky," I name the form that has become particular and fixed in this matter. The same abstraction exists in relation to everything, and the intellect cognizes itself in the same way as another intelligible, as established in the third [book] "On the Soul". From this it is clear that not only the material and mathematical are separable, but also everything divine or that something is separable in the sense in which the intellect separates the universal from the particular.. Concerning what has been said, that we know and know every thing, when we know causes and principles, which, however, seem to be particular, it seems that we should consider that that the principles of being, knowledge and knowledge of a thing are the same according to the truth of things, but the causes of knowledge and things existing in nature are not perceived in the same way, since they are perceived in a universal way cause knowledge, but appropriated by some thing and become private in it they are the beginning of things in nature ”(Albert the Great. On the intellect and the intelligible. T. 2. S. 49-80 present ed.).

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