Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
slighter .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word slighters.
Examples
-
Let me, therefore, by these following questions, try whether none of you are slighters of Christ and your own salvation.
-
Let me, therefore, by these following questions, try whether none of you are slighters of Christ and your own salvation.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
-
Sabbath-slighters in New England to the present day.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
-
True, there are always consequences; but look at the substance ... and in truth we could probably go back 1000s of years and find slighters and slightees along the way.
-
True, there are always consequences; but look at the substance ... and in truth we could probably go back 1000s of years and find slighters and slightees along the way.
-
It is like they are still the same that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still; I left them slighters of the gospel, saints, and ways of God, and they do it still; 'send him to my father's house,' it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to-day, before to-morrow, 'lest they also come into the same place of torment.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
-
4, 'But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared;' about the latter end of which, there is a description of the miserable condition of those that are slighters of pardoning grace.
The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 Philip Doddridge 1726
-
Presbytery, and likewise of Christian communion, in admission of people to sealing ordinances; secluding therefrom all opposers, contemners, and slighters of the said renovation of our solemn covenants. "
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.