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  • verb Present participle of principle.

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Examples

  • Christ, in our gracious acceptation, notwithstanding all that was against us, and also, by principling us with grace for obedience, sanctify us throughout.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • His internal principling against sin he hath from being “born of God” and the

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • As for the Bible, which children are usually employ’d in to exercise and improve their talent in reading, I think the promiscuous reading of it through by chapters as they lie in order, is so far from being of any advantage to children, either for the perfecting their reading, or principling their religion, that perhaps a worse could not be found.

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 151-160 1909

  • This I am sure, that if the foundation of it be not laid in the education and principling of the youth, all other endeavours will be in vain.

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70 1909

  • Now, unlike those who died at Masada, we can now stand on principle AND use your own weapons against you instead of principling ourselves right out of existence.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Now, unlike those who died at Masada, we can now stand on principle AND use your own weapons against you instead of principling ourselves right out of existence.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Now, unlike those who died at Masada, we can now stand on principle AND use your own weapons against you instead of principling ourselves right out of existence.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Now, unlike those who died at Masada, we can now stand on principle AND use your own weapons against you instead of principling ourselves right out of existence.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • But since I cannot find that the law which tolerates them in their way of worship (and it does no more) does at all forbid us to defend ours, it were earnestly to be wished, that all hearty lovers of the church of Eng land would assert its excellent constitution more vigorously now than ever: and especially in such congregations as this; in which there are so many young persons, upon the well or ill principling of whom, next under

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

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