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- adjective Becoming to a
Christian .
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Examples
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When I was young, my family used to shut off the lights and hide if we saw Jehovah's witnesses coming down the street - a particularly un-Christianlike response.
Spreading the Good News Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2006
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If we cherish these Christianlike views, we should not judge so harshly of the poor, of whom it is no less faulty to judge, than of the rich; and in their poverty we should find as powerful motives for loving
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe
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Why can't the directors have more Christianlike names for their moving power?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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After such testimony who can doubt the Christianlike behavior and soldierly qualities of the black man?
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That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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If we cherish these Christianlike views, we should not judge so harshly of the poor, of whom it is no less faulty to judge, than of the rich; and in their poverty we should find as powerful motives for loving Jesus Christ, as for affording the succor they require.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917
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Christianlike aim to soften the hard side of human nature is seen in its many lessons of mildness, charity towards the sick, feeble, and aged, and in its insistence on the duty of forgiving injuries and returning good for evil.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Let's be cautious and work in a Christianlike manner; find out by talking with people on the street and in their homes, what he said, and above all, don't let Cameron know how we feel.
That Printer of Udell's Harold Bell Wright 1908
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This spirit may not be very Christianlike, but it is very human and practical, and helps to win battles, and to win battles is the only reason why soldiers go to war.
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High Council of his Stake, for "apostasy and un-Christianlike conduct."
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Frank Jenne Cannon 1902
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