holy being
Example Sentences
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Where the word “Mother” appears in the following song it refers to “Mother Earth,” a living, conscious, holy being in Indian thought.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
It is supposed to deprive a deity or holy being of its holiness....
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Some holy being does invade this place, And from their duty does my spirits chase.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
For that holy being, that resplendent person, with all her heart and soul and endless love, had ever fostered and cherished him in the warm embrace of her celestial tenderness.
From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre
This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
