Definitions
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- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
- adjective being four more than twenty
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It is the formative, creative power of the world (xxiv, 3 sqq.), yet is itself created (i, 9; also in Greek: xxiv, 9), and is nowhere treated as a distinct, subsisting Divine
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Farmer's Boy MS, pp. xxiv – xxv, mis-dated 1795 BACK
Letter 8 2009
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Farmer's Boy, 2nd ed. (London, 1800), pp. xxiii – xxiv BACK
Letter 27 2009
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A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine. [xxiv]
Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health 2010
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A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine. [xxiv]
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In their Introduction to Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies [25], the co-editors call attention to law as the “expression of culture” (Goldberg et al. xxiv).
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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From the Lesson for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Ecclesiasticus, xxiv, 24-28: I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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From the Lesson for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Ecclesiasticus, xxiv, 24-28: I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.
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Luckily for me, the entire phrase is also found in another case, the simple locative: haθe-c repine-c in LL 9.xii also hante-c repine-c in LL 3.xxiv.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Here also he married, and here, too, his wife, "the desire of his eyes," was taken from him "with a stroke" (Ezekiel xxiv, 15-18).
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