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 Hugh Binning
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
“My son;” what compellation could be more benign and kind?
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
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 Benjamin Homer Hall
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
