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Painting of Christ with the crown of thorns
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ecce homo
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, literally "behold the man" (John xix:5), from Latin ecce "lo!, behold!" Christ crowned with thorns, especially as the subject of a painting.
WordNet
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n. a representation (a picture or sculpture) of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns
Wiktionary
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n. (context arts English) A picture representing Jesus Christ as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is is the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that lasted until his death in 1900. It was written in 1888 and was not published until 1908. According to one ...
Usage examples of ecce homo.
They say: this is man, ecce homo, here is the weary, greedy, wild, childlike, and sophisticated man of our late age, dying European man who wants to die, overstrung by every longing, sick from every vice, enraptured by knowledge of his doom, ready for any kind of progress, ripe for any kind of retrogression, submitting to fate and pain like the drug addict to his poison, lonely, hollowed-out, age-old, at once Faust and Karamazov, beast and sage, wholly exposed, wholly without ambition, wholly naked, filled with childish dread of death and filled .
There was then nothing for our noble, mid-Victorian sparrow to do but slap his own manly bosom and proclaim: 'Ecce homo!
Peter had sent word by Mary that I should hide, stay away from the Ecce Homo, Pilate's judgment seat, and from Golgotha, where the execution was to be.
The Archbishop, his arms raised to heaven, lighted by a last ray which penetrated the casements of the nave, stood out upon a dark background, where one could scarcely distinguish a pedestal without a statue, on which were written these two words of the Passion of Christ: ECCE HOMO!