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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain.

Greek

3097. magos -- a Magian, ie an (Oriental) astrologer, by impl. a ...
... a Median tribe (so Herodotus); a Magian, one of a sacred caste, originally Median,
who seem to have conformed to the Persian religion, while retaining some of ...
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Library

Whether Prodigality is Opposite to Covetousness?
... by being less careful of them than he ought: and as regards external action,
prodigality implies excess in giving, but deficiency in retaining and acquiring ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether prodigality is opposite to.htm

St. Paul Quite in Accordance with St. Peter and Other Apostles of ...
... calls "false brethren unawares brought in." [5275] These persons went no further
than to insist on a continuance of the law, retaining unquestionably a sincere ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter iii st paul quite in.htm

The Unity of the Three Takes Place in Thought, viz of Memory, of ...
... as to produce vision, nor does the will itself perform its office of applying the
sense, that is to be informed, to the sensible body, and of retaining it in ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 3 the unity of the.htm

The Assertion of the Novatians that they Refuse Communion Only to ...
... 7. The Church holds fast its obedience on either side, by both retaining and remitting
sin; heresy is on the one side cruel, and on the other disobedient ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter ii the assertion of.htm

Whether Our Wills are Ruled by Necessity.
... Therefore we are by no means compelled, either, retaining the prescience of God,
to take away the freedom of the will, or, retaining the freedom of the will ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 10 whether our wills are.htm

Concerning "Good," "Light," "Beautiful," "Desire," "Ecstasy ...
... from the highest and most perfect forms of being unto the lowest, and still is beyond
them all, remaining superior to those above and retaining those below in ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter iv concerning good light.htm

The Articles of the Reformed Episcopal Church. AD 1875.
... III. This Church, retaining a Liturgy which shall not be imperative or repressive
of freedom in prayer, accepts the Book of Common Prayer, as it was revised ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 86 the articles of.htm

The Royal Marriage Feast.
... But in this case there is no reason for adopting the exceptional, and the strongest
reason for retaining what is confessedly the ordinary and natural ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xii the royal marriage feast.htm

But You Say, that You Therefore Believe Your Friend, Whose Heart ...
... point also they have believed the accounts of others telling of it, who yet are
unable to show it, because it is a thing already past; retaining themselves no ...
/.../augustine/concerning faith of things not seen /3 but you say that.htm

The Spirituality of the Risen Body.
... It means that, while retaining their essential material nature, they will be clothed
with properties which naturally belong only to spirits, and not to bodies. ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter vi the spirituality of.htm

Thesaurus

Retaining (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Retaining (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 3:18 A tree of life
she 'is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her 'is' happy. ...
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Retention
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of keeping something in one's possession
or use. 2. (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness. ...
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Kir (11 Occurrences)
... Following this, but retaining qir, Cheyne translates "Kir undermineth, and Shoa
is at the mount," but others accept Delitzsch's emendation, Winckler ...
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Keep (4573 Occurrences)
... 26. (n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge. 27. (n.) A cap for retaining
anything, as a journal box, in place. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Lemuel (3 Occurrences)
... See for a suggested reason for retaining the meaning "oracle" in both places, PROVERBS,
THE BOOK OF, II, 6. John Franklin Genung. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Ish-bosheth (14 Occurrences)
... was fulfilled by Ish-Bosheth (2 Samuel 3:14 f), but it was not until after Abner's
death that Ish-Bosheth seems to have given up hopes of retaining his power ...
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Ishbosheth (13 Occurrences)
... was fulfilled by Ish-Bosheth (2 Samuel 3:14 f), but it was not until after Abner's
death that Ish-Bosheth seems to have given up hopes of retaining his power ...
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Retains (2 Occurrences)

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Retaineth (3 Occurrences)

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Retain (24 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) "obtain")); in one case kala' (Ecclesiastes 8:8).
In the New Testament krateo, is used in John 20:23 of the "retaining" of sins ...
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Bible Concordance

Retaining (1 Occurrence)

Proverbs 3:18 A tree of life she 'is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her 'is' happy.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Retaining

Related Terms

Retention

Kir (11 Occurrences)

Keep (4573 Occurrences)

Lemuel (3 Occurrences)

Ish-bosheth (14 Occurrences)

Ishbosheth (13 Occurrences)