Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To exist as an animating or divine inner spirit, force, or principle.
- intransitive verb To be located or implanted inside something.
- intransitive verb To inhabit or reside within as such a spirit, force, or principle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle
Etymologies
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Examples
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The love that is God ad intra consists precisely in how the Persons mutually inhere or indwell, which is something our minds can perceive only dimly and indirectly, by analogy, even as we are called to participate in it as children of God.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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The love that is God ad intra consists precisely in how the Persons mutually inhere or indwell, which is something our minds can perceive only dimly and indirectly, by analogy, even as we are called to participate in it as children of God.
Beating the filioque horse Mike L 2006
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Eventually Satan himself will "indwell" the Antichrist, and will lead the forces of Evil against the forces of Good, led by the descended Christ, in the final confrontation at the Battles of Armageddon.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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Eventually Satan himself will "indwell" the Antichrist, and will lead the forces of Evil against the forces of Good, led by the descended Christ, in the final confrontation at the Battles of Armageddon.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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He will come and not only rest upon us, but indwell us.
FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010
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We need to move from being spectators to being participants in the raw, infiltrating presence of God that He may indwell our lives in a substantial way.
FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010
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That the Persons mutually indwell in love is, accordingly, not free: it is of the essence of God that they do so.
Beating the filioque horse Mike L 2006
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That the Persons mutually indwell in love is, accordingly, not free: it is of the essence of God that they do so.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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The Holy Spirit is believed by Christians to indwell believers and guide the CHURCH.
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For, as I said before, if it were unfitting for Him thus to indwell the part, it would be equally so for Him to exist within the whole.
On the Incarnation c.296-c.373 1946
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