PECULIARITIES OF VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT "HOLINESS" IN THE CHURCH SLAVONIC AND OLD RUSSIAN LANGUAGES: THE ETHICAL DIMENSION
The concept of «holiness» contains a high ethical burden, is the peak mental moral values. Verbalization of the concept, however, little studied in linguistics. The origins of the dominant ethical burden of verbalization of the concept of «holiness» lies in old Church Slavonic and old Russian languages. An appeal to the dictionaries of this period enables us to identify the ethical fullness of the concept of «holiness», formed by Christian ideology. Comparative analysis of ethical meanings, characteristic of the dominant verbalization concept in old Church Slavonic and old Russian languages (Holiness, Holy, Saint, priesthood, light) allows one to identify the ethical meaning of the fraction concept «holiness»: 1) «right believer»; «dedicated»; «all-perfect; righteous; living according to the rules prescribed by the faith», «enlightened by the light of the gospel teachings», «light, clean, immaculate», «sacrament of God»; 2) «with the Holy, blameless, righteous»; «ordained»; «sacred; based on the rules of faith»; «imbued with a sacred authority, sanctifying power», «associated with the Holy, belonging to the Holy»; «Holy, divine; pure, free»; «performing the commandments of God»; 3) «what makes a clear, comprehensible world»; «what makes a joyful, happy life»; «spiritual light»; «clean, pure»; «good, kind»; «blissful»; «education (about baptism)»; «piety». Share ethical meaning of the concept «holiness», implemented in the semantics of the dominant verbalization demonstrate the importance of the mental concept and its inclusion in the ethical sphere of concepts, along with concepts: God, faith, grace, Truth (Christ), truth, truth, righteousness, justice, unity, joy, wonder, piety, honesty, chastity, etc. over the whole study period verbalizing the main concept and their derivatives are highly ethical significance and of constant positive connotation. However, among verbalisation there are a number of ethical words with «opposite» values, which stresses the importance of the concept in Russian mentality.