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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
munnion .
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Examples
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Hamann was brought up as a Pietist, a member of the most introspective and self-absorbed of all the Lutheran sects, intent upon the direct com - munion of the individual soul with God, bitterly antirationalist, liable to emotional excess, preoccupied with the stern demands of moral obligation and the needs for severe self-discipline.
THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968
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This freedom is, however, not the sole creative result of the “com - munion” with beauty.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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The contrast between his experience of the trans - formation of sexual passion into an intimate com - munion with Perfect Being and the Augustinian theol - ogy of Grace as a predestined election into “the City of God” was in itself a dramatization of the difference between an emotional conversion and a moral regeneration.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER 1968
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The “vision” of absolute beauty is “com - munion” with the supreme value, beauty, and is the presupposition of the experience of the mathematical forms in Philebus as beautiful forms.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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To interfere with souls in their com - munion with God seemed impossible; to let them continue to utter personal attacks in church, under cover of prayer, was equally impossible.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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There I found the com - munion-table set forth with a beautiful new com - munion-service.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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Communion is a munion, a unity of two parties (co -).
RORATE CÆLI 2010
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By the Brotherhood of Man in com - Brotherhood of Light that comes in the brightness of the Lord's glory. measuring the wave form of this munion with the Living Light can the appearance of a n 'earthling 61 The Brothers of celestial Light threshold, the Higher Evolu - both "see" a n d "receive" the man.'
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* the divinely instituted sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Communion, as expressing for all the corporate life of the whole fellowship in and with Christ;
Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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* the divinely instituted sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Communion, as expressing for all the corporate life of the whole fellowship in and with Christ;
The Reunion of Christendom Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
chained_bear commented on the word munion
"Munions, in ship-building, the pieces that part the lights in the stern and quarter-gallery."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 290
October 11, 2008