Bible Dictionary: Tact

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Skill and discernment to say what is appropriate to circumstances.

2. (n.) The sense of touch; feeling.

3. (n.) The stroke in beating time.

Library

Tact of the Heart. March 3.
... Tact of the Heart. March 3. Random shots are dangerous and cruel, likely
to hit the wrong person and hurt his feelings unnecessarily. ...
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Enthusiasm and Tact. February 11.
... Enthusiasm and Tact. February 11. . . . ... What matter? But pray for tact, the true
tact which love alone can give, to prevent scandalising a weak brother. ...
/.../kingsley/daily thoughts /enthusiasm and tact february 11.htm

Letter vii. Tact --Unobtrusiveness.
... LETTER VII. TACT"UNOBTRUSIVENESS. My ... opinions. And yet no rules were ever
laid down by which anyone can learn to acquire tact. ...
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The New Testament Has Preserved for us the Most Valuable Portion ...
... [138] We not infrequently hear high praise given to the historical "tact" with which
the books of the New Testament were selected; "tact," however, played no ...
/.../harnack/the origin of the new testament/ 4 the new testament.htm

Daily Thoughts,
... Passion and Reason. February 10. Enthusiasm and Tact. February 11. The Eternal Good. ...
March 1. A Charm of Birds. March 2. Tact of the Heart. March 3. ...
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On Appeal.
... of which, again, the whole sermon is the expression:"There is first, that gift,
or endowment, or talent"call it what you will"which we speak of as Tact. ...
/.../jackson/the message and the man/chapter iii on appeal.htm

But There is a Further Fact; Forgotten Also Because we Moderns ...
... ever called it fatherwit. Now anarchy is only tact when it works badly.
Tact is only anarchy when it works well. And we ought to ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 25 but there is.htm

Face to Face with Shams
... Even in his most bold proceedings he displayed a certain tact. We are apt
to despise tact as a petty accomplishment; but just as ...
/.../chapter xxiii face to face.htm

The Net Broken
... that feels the lust of battle maddening him. Esther's words to the king
are full of tact. She begins with what seems to have been ...
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The Epistle to Philemon.
... makes an agreeable impression by its attractive form," and breathes "the noblest
Christian spirit." [1193] Holtzmann calls it "a model of tact, refinement, and ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 98 the epistle to.htm

Thesaurus

Tact (1 Occurrence)
... circumstances. 2. (n.) The sense of touch; feeling. 3. (n.) The stroke in beating
time. Multi-Version Concordance Tact (1 Occurrence). Daniel ...
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Tongues (67 Occurrences)
... These qualities are such as: knowledge and wisdom, zeal and prudence,
confidence and devotion, boldness and love. skill and tact. ...
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Tadmor (2 Occurrences)

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Tacklings (1 Occurrence)

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Gedaliah (31 Occurrences)
... Gedaliah in a very attractive light, as one who possessed the confidence alike of
his own people and their conquerors; a man of rare wisdom and tact, and of ...
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Fire (602 Occurrences)
... These qualities are such as: knowledge and wisdom, zeal and prudence,
confidence and devotion, boldness and love. skill and tact. ...
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Herod (45 Occurrences)
... His intellectual powers were far beyond the ordinary; his will was indomitable;
he was possessed of great tact, when he saw fit to employ it; in the great ...
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Rome (12 Occurrences)
... 1. Imperial Authority: Augustus displayed considerable tact in blending his own
mastery in the state with the old institutions of the republican constitution. ...
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Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)
... Early in the 17th century Father Pedro Paez, an ecclesiastic of much tact, won the
king fully to his faith, and under his direction many churches were erected ...
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Bible Concordance

Tact (1 Occurrence)

Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon;
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Subtopics

Tact

Tact in David's Popular Methods in Mourning for Abner

Tact in David's Popular Methods in Organizing the Temple Music

Tact in David's Popular Methods in Securing Popular Consent to Bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem

Tact in Preaching

Tact of Gideon

Tact of Saul, in Managing Malcontents

Tact: Esther, in Placating the King

Tact: General Scriptures Concerning

Tact: Joab's Trick in Obtaining David's Consent to the Return of Absalom

Tact: Mordecai, in Concealing Esther's Nationality