Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The knowledge and skill required to do something correctly. synonym: skill.
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- noun the
knowledge andskill to be able to (do something correctly)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The spiritual know-how we seek was given to our African ancestors in the beginning, and it is our birthright to rediscover what has been forgotten and lost.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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The spiritual know-how for tracking and finding the gods has become a part of my everyday life.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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They understood that words are inadequate for transmitting spiritual know-how.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Other indigenous cultures have this same wisdom know-how regarding the relationship between utterly ridiculous absurdity and profound spirituality.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Inside the egg are all the ropes, arrows of n|om, songs, and spiritual know-how needed to be a master of seiki, an owner of n|om, and an ambassador of the Holy Spirit.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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This is testimony about our cultural ignorance regarding ecstatic spiritual know-how.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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It is also an entrance to the library of all wisdom and spiritual know-how.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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I also feel that he has downloaded some know-how into me—a knowing that goes past what can be conveyed by words.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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There, you will receive spiritual know-how and, more important, be infused with pure n|om.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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I fell into a health crisis, a relationship calamity, an economic disaster, and one professional battle after another as I tried to find my way toward embodying this n|om know-how.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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