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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ingraft .
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Examples
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Further, Gregory says that “obedience is the only virtue that ingrafts virtues in the soul and protects them when ingrafted.”
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Obj. 2: Further, Gregory says (Moral. xxxv) that "obedience is the only virtue that ingrafts virtues in the soul and protects them when ingrafted."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Christian they seem subordinate and incidental, have every appearance of being ingrafts, not outgrowths.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Faith cuts us from the wild olive of nature, and ingrafts us into Christ.
The Lord's Prayer 1692
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-- the Eloquence which ingrafts opinions that are new, and eradicates the old; but yet is widely different from the two characters of Speaking before-mentioned.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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