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
On the following night a holy being appeared to him, and ordered him to make a representation of what he had seen in the sky, and use it for an ensign in battle.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Yet the Pope is still a holy being.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
