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- noun The state, condition, or quality of being a
son ;sonship .
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Examples
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I'm dreaming of every primary school in the land occupied indefinitely until the Real men give over and return to sonhood ...
OpEdNEws Demands Civility Among Disagreeing Progressives 2008
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As I see it Women-led mixed is the only formula which stands a chance of deconstructing the fanatical Real Men's Gangs and 'recall to sonhood' their individual members. by
John Graham's Sit Down Young Stranger: One Man's Search for Meaning 2008
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The pope continued: It can be seen that the Christian, even before acting, already has a rich and fecund interiority bestowed by the sacraments of baptism and confirmation, interiority established in an objective and unique relationship of sonhood with God.
General Audience: Spirit pushes Christians towards love, communion and hope Argent 2006
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We should have been little children loving the Father indeed, but children far from the sonhood that understands and adores.
Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885
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We should have been little children loving the Father indeed, but children far from the sonhood that understands and adores.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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Son, and to the spirit of both, the fatherhood of the Father meeting and blending with the sonhood of the Son, and drawing us up into the glory of their joy, to share in the thoughts of love that pass between them, in their thoughts of delight and rest in each other, in their thoughts of joy in all the little ones.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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Your gallant battle-hosts and work-hosts, as the others did, will need to be made loyally yours; they must and will be regulated, methodically secured in their just share of conquest under you; -- joined with you in veritable brotherhood, sonhood, by quite other and deeper ties than those of temporary day's wages!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Your gallant battle-hosts and work-hosts, as the others did, will need to be made loyally yours; they must and will be regulated, methodically secured in their just share of conquest under you; -- joined with you in veritable brotherhood, sonhood, by quite other and deeper ties than those of temporary day's wages!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I know this must sound extremely negative about men, but even as we accentuate the negative here, we should also show a way out - sonhood, self-other acceptance - and we can then put our praise of true sonhood into top gear (instead of playing never-ending hand-on-top with the frat about what counts as the behaviour of 'real men' without understanding that, for Real men/loyal Fratlers, the issue is not an intellectual discussion but a scary emotively charged excuse to oppress/exclude for not being a 'real man' - like the use of the term 'conspiracy theorist' is more like a weapon.)
John Graham's Sit Down Young Stranger: One Man's Search for Meaning 2008
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Father, but in the fact of it, in the burning love in the hearts of Father and Son, then glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the spirit of both, the fatherhood of the Father meeting and blending with the sonhood of the Son, and drawing us up into the glory of their joy, to share in the thoughts of love that pass between them, in their thoughts of delight and rest in each other, in their thoughts of joy in all the little ones.
Unspoken Sermons Third Series 1824-1905 1889
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