compellation
Example Sentences
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That name and compellation of "little flock" doth not comfort, but deject, my devotion; especially when I reflect upon mine own unworthiness, wherein, accord- ing to my humble apprehensions, I am below them all.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
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 Hugh Binning
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 William Beckford
He gives me the compellation of "The Author of a Dramatic Essay"; which is a little Discourse in dialogue, for the most part borrowed from the observations of others.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
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 F.O.C. Darley
