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- verb Present participle of
devest .
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Examples
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And Kristen needs to get her heartbroken in real life so she can play that kind of devesting pain Bella feels when Edward leaves (sorry Kristen).
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And Kristen needs to get her heartbroken in real life so she can play that kind of devesting pain Bella feels when Edward leaves (sorry Kristen).
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An explosion on any one of these commuter trains would be devesting.
Think Progress » “One day after the mass transit rail bombings in India, 2006
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A Man had need to have a great fidelity, and devesting himself of selfishness, to get a perfect and passive Capacity of the Divine Influences; the continual habits of operating freely, which it has, are a hindrance to its annihilation.
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The second is interestedness in contemplation it self: Thou must therefore procure in thy Soul a perfect devesting of all which is not God, without seeking any other end or interest, within or without, but the Divine
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Sir, this can be done no other way but by devesting out of him, from the time of the act done in his life, which was the cause of his death, the title and property of those things which he had in his lifetime. "
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