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tabernacle

[tab-er-nak-uhl] / ˈtæb ərˌnæk əl /


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“The Los Angeles Public Library. The go-to tabernacle of literacy and lifesaving life hacks. A passport to wonder and whimsy and then some,” Bui says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

Its location in the nation’s capital is no accident: On its website, the center boasts that it is the closest tabernacle to the White House.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023

She’s said it on her knees before her church’s gold tabernacle and slumped in the embrace of her living room sofa.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Just days before the Brooklyn tabernacle was stolen, a collection of priceless relics disappeared from a church in Florida.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

There were two giant fans at the front of the church, one by the tabernacle and one next to the statue of Saint Joseph.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Soon after, Romney immigrated to the U.S., eventually joining the Mormons in Utah, where he served as an architect, designing temples, tabernacles, and the homes of the church’s second prophet Brigham Young.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023

The heavy concrete rooftops and domes of churches across the southern peninsula are now caved in, tabernacles crooked or buried under rubble, walls marbled with deep cracks.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

This is a kind of perfection created under the auspices of the old model: high priests, secret tabernacles, inherited authorities, management by diktat.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2015

May the heart of Jesus’s most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection in every moment in all the tabernacles in the world, even till the end of time.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2011

There was something solemn and reverent about the way they huddled within those shadowed niches, their voices soft enough to be indistinct, as though they were praying in tabernacles.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Free from self-conceit or arrogance, a stranger to affectation or dissimulation, he was a pure, true man; the purest, loveliest spirit, ever tabernacled in the flesh.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg

Swift, in Gulliver’s Travels, conceived of a land where the intelligence and conscience of Man dwelt in the form of the horse, and the human form tabernacled the instincts of the beast.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

He sees in part, and he knows in part; but never while tabernacled in mortal flesh will he fully awake to the intelligence of his former estate.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Parley P. Pratt

For, as the context goes on to tell, the Word which tabernacled among us was 'full of grace and truth,' and therein is the glory most gloriously revealed.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

"The Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us," is for him the supreme dogma.

From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge

So again and again Synoptic scenes are retouched and new scenes are added in a way to present a consistent picture of the "tabernacling" of the pre-existent Son of God in human flesh.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

We found some inhabitants tabernacling in our bedstead that annoyed us more than the musquitoes.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark

It also makes Him God tabernacling in the flesh; it makes Him the Second Person of the Triune God; it declares in so many words that He is God.

From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

Under the stands and around the booths, tabernacling beneath costermongers' barrows, and even lying out openly sub dio, were still the hundreds of human beings.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

The priesthood was the priesthood; the Blessed Sacrament was the God-Man tabernacling with men.

From Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson




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