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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dox .
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Examples
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Dainyl looked back at the gardens, with their precisely trimmed hedges and stone paths, with the fountains, and the topiary of all manner of creatures, including a lifelike pteridon and a long hedge sculpted into the likeness of two san-doxes and a set of transport coaches.
Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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So far as Christ was concerned it is one of the para - doxes of the period from the later twelfth century that the figure of Christ as a man became the most potent challenge to the Church as a divine institution.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968
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Shakespeare's King Lear is, among much else, a dem - onstration of the “truth” of several of Lando's para - doxes.
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Para - doxes (London, 1872).
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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And in the manner of his expression he declares these things to be "wonderful," as the psalmist speaks; for there is in them ploutos tes doxes, "the riches of glory," -- which is beyond our comprehension.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Marias tes parthenou, kai enanthropesanta, staurothenta te huper hemon epi Pontiou Pilatou, kai pathonta, kai taphenta, kai anastanta te trite hemera kata tas gpaphas, kai anelthonta eis tous ouranous, kai kathezomenon ek dexion tou patros, kai palin erchomenon meta doxes krinai zontas kai nekrous; ou tes basileias ouk estai telos.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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[505] Rec. text, eis apolutrosin tes peripoieseos, eis epainon tes doxes autou.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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[34] No orator in the Greek tongue hath any so superlative expression, kath hyperbolen eis hyperbolen aionion baros doxes. —
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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Yea, treasures, all treasures are in him, (Col. 2: 3,) so it is called, (2 Cor. 4: 17,) baros doxes, a weight of glory.
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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I'm sure y o u can see the connec - tion between learning to see and draw what is right there in front of your eyes and learning to be a more \ "c l e a r - s i g h t e d \" person, able to deal with contradictory information and the m a n y para - doxes of our world.
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