supernatural virtue
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When Dr. Newman was ordained in 1824, he has told us, he did not look on ordination as a sacramental rite, nor did he ascribe to baptism any supernatural virtue.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
When worthy means of obtaining redress are exhausted it requires almost a supernatural virtue not to acquiesce in unworthy means.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
There is no supernatural virtue in the crystal itself—it is merely a means to an end; a piece of useful apparatus to aid in the production of certain phenomena.
From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami
He therefore carefully cherished in those about him the idea that there was in him a kind of supernatural virtue, and that he had the agents of an invisible world at his command.
From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William
The paint was supposed to have supernatural virtue and caused an object to become invisible or invulnerable.
From Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Voe, Carrie de
