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  • adjective Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.

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Christ +‎ -like

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Examples

  • That is, over time he go -- he goes from Master Farad Muhammad to a kind of Christlike figure and then to a kind of prophetic figure and then to God.

    An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad 1997

  • We feel the pressure to be "Christlike" in our marriages - and since none of us are even close to that level of sainthood, we feel a lot of guilt and shame.

    Writing Canvas 2010

  • We feel the pressure to be "Christlike" in our marriages - and since none of us are even close to that level of sainthood, we feel a lot of guilt and shame.

    Writing Canvas Loni 2010

  • William: Rather than the fiction section, I think that a section devoted to superstition and pseudo-science might be more suitable for ... aj: I have always read that to mean that we should be more "Christlike", as much as possible and that God ...

    Truth Wins Out » Blog 2008

  • William: Rather than the fiction section, I think that a section devoted to superstition and pseudo-science might be more suitable for ... aj: I have always read that to mean that we should be more "Christlike", as much as possible and that God ...

    Truth Wins Out » Blog 2008

  • He stepped back from the podium, pulled his hands away from his brow, and extended them straight out from his body—and held the Christlike pose for perhaps five seconds.55

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • One of the most Christlike men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing was an elderly blind gay minister with the Metropolitan Community Church, Although disabled every day he strove to bring comfort to the distressed and counsel to the confused, the man was a saint.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Cain belonged to the city of man, but Christlike Abel belonged to the City of God.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Locking people into one-dimensional caricatures, liberal or conservative, or vilifying people who hold different beliefs is no more Christlike or faithful if it comes from a friend with whom I find great ideological affinity or from someone that I would rather eat glass than share a meal with.

    Bruce Reyes-Chow: Jesus Christ, Michelle Bachmann And Other Lunatics Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011

  • One of the most Christlike men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing was an elderly blind gay minister with the Metropolitan Community Church, Although disabled every day he strove to bring comfort to the distressed and counsel to the confused, the man was a saint.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

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