holy being
Example Sentences
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The virtuous choose, are virtuous by choice; the holy, being one, deliberate not—their volitions answering spontaneously to their desires.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
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 Fowler, W. Warde
Jesus for me is a living, beloved and loving being, who helps and supports me, an exalted, holy being.
From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von
Had I been in a Catholic church I had imagined her to have been some holy being, incarnated by her deep sympathy with the worshippers.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis
This then cannot be applied to a holy being.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various