compellation

Example Sentences

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It is the ordinary compellation of the Holy Ghost, “Man being in honour, and understanding not, is like the beasts that perish,” Psal. xlix.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

“My son;” what compellation could be more benign and kind?

From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Barrow, Isaac

And, accordingly, we find the schoolmistress—being a descendant of the Jason's-crew, who landed from the Argo-Mayflower, usually bearing a name thus significant, and manifesting, even at her age, traits of character justifying the compellation.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.

Nothing could have been more appositely imagined than this compellation.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

In the following passage, this word is used as a titulary compellation, like the word lordship.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer