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- adjective
superlative form ofholy : mostholy .; most sacred. - adjective
superlative form ofholey : mostholey .; most full of holes.
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Examples
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And hallow'd like the land, in holiest beauty lies.
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They even call our holiest ceremony a trance dance and see us entering a kind of dreamscape.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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I invite comment here because there are differing opinions surrounding the origins of Christmas, the so-called holiest day on the Christian calendar.
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AMANPOUR: We're entering now what's known as the holiest part of the Catholic mass, which is the Eucharistic liturgy and this will be fairly lengthy.
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And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all; Ex. 26. 31-33 which had the golden censer, Ex. 30. 1-6 and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, Ex. 25. 10-16 wherein was the golden pot that had manna, Ex. 16.33 and Aaron's rod that budded, Num.
Hebrews 9. 1999
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This privilege of entering into the holiest, which is a true expressing of all gospel, worship, could no otherwise be obtained for nor granted unto believers, but by the blood of Christ.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The holiest will be the humblest and most self-forgetting, the gentlest and most self-denying, the kindest and most thoughtful of others for Jesus 'sake.
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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We have an account of what was in the inner part of the sanctuary, which was within the second veil, and is called the holiest of all.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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The holiest was a type of heaven, but the ark and mercy-seat were
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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The first might be to teach us in charity we should not be niggardly, but, according to the breadth of our ability, we should extend it to all the house; and that in our so doing, the very emblem of heaven is upon us, of which the holiest was a figure.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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