Biblical register?
Hi, everyone.
Could someone tell me what biblical register means in the para below?
Vox you have to admit this is powerful stuff. He's positioning himself as the sacrificial prisoner to be hoisted up on the cross by hands from the right and the left. He speaks in biblical register. Maybe you could adopt the same rhetoric.
Thanks
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I guess it means that he says things like "thou art" and thou shalt not" a lot.
- I guess it means that he says things like "thou art" and thou shalt not" a lot.
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I guess it means that he says things like "thou art" and thou shalt not" a lot.
0See sense 3 of "register" at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/register:
A variety of a language or a level of usage, as determined by degree of formality and choice of vocabulary,
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