Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A laboring merely with the lips; labor that consists in promises and professions.
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If the receiving of a temporal gift naturally tends to the making of us to move our cap and knee, and binds us to be the servant of the giver, shall we think that faith will leave him who by it has received Christ, to be as unconcerned as a stock or stone, or that its utmost excellency is to provoke the soul to a lip-labor, and to give Christ a few fair words for his pains and grace, and so wrap up the business?
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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