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- noun Plural form of
iniquity .
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Examples
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` ` Yea, ye-a, '' said Josiah, reluctantly, ` ` because father Job is a very awful man to speak with; and being aged himself, he has but little charity for what he calls the iniquities of the flesh. ''
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"Yea, ye-a," said Josiah, reluctantly, "because father Job is a very awful man to speak with; and being aged himself, he has but little charity for what he calls the iniquities of the flesh."
The Snow Image and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Does it not flow from the mouth of that great man into the mouths of all Christians: "Behold I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins my mother conceived me" [Psalms 50: 7]?
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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God executes judgment upon them when the measure of their iniquities is full, and does it, (1.)
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The time fixed for this victory: In the day of his wrath, that is, the time appointed for it, when the measure of their iniquities is full and they are ripe for ruin.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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She has provoked God, and shall be reckoned with for it when the measure of her iniquities is full.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The general, who with all his iniquities was a good-hearted chief, thought he was sick, and told him to stay at home and take care of himself.
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I, O Lord, I am the cause of these thy sorrows; my sins wrought thy shame, my iniquities are the occasion of thy injuries.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Benfield in his iniquities was the inducement to the two right honorable gentlemen to order this very soucar security to be given, and to recall
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Nor do they only thirst after blood, but with other iniquities are their fingers defiled (v. 3); they wrong people in their estates and make every thing their own that they can lay their hands on.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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