Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- preposition To.
- preposition Until.
- preposition By.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To: now somewhat antiquated, but much used in formal or elevated style.
- They also brought a full intelligence in reference unto the particulars they were sent about.
- Up to the time or degree that; until; till.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See
To . - preposition obsolete Until; till.
- conjunction obsolete Until; till.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- conjunction obsolete Up to the
time ordegree that;until ;till . - preposition Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Who, but an impious scorner, dares thus strive with his Maker, and mutilate HIS IMAGE, and blaspheme the Holy One, who saith, "_Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto_ ME."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Who, but an impious scorner, dares thus strive with his Maker, and mutilate HIS IMAGE, and blaspheme the Holy One, who saith, "_Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto_ ME."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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But on those words in the Epistle to the Hebrews, [496] _Ye have not yet resisted unto blood_, the Gloss has: "There is no more perfect charity in this life than that to which the holy Martyrs attained, for they strove against sin even _unto blood_."
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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When men live because they already have as an actual possession, eternal life, and realize that it is eternal, they live from love, and not unto themselves but "_unto Him_."
God's Plan with Men 1900
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Now being made _free from sin_, and become servants unto God, ye have your fruit _unto sanctification_, and the end eternal life. '
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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'If a man therefore cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, _sanctified_, meet _for the Master's use_, prepared _unto every good work_.'
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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'Having been made free from sin, and having been enslaved unto God, ye have your fruit _unto sanctification_.'
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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Let us listen to the message: 'Being made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness; now yield your members servants to righteousness _unto sanctification_.'
Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy Andrew Murray 1872
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To them it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but _unto us_ they did minister the things, which are now reported _unto you_ by them that have preached the Gospel _unto you_. '
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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And so we pass unto our second accommodation of these words (_unto God the Lord belong the issues of death_); that it belongs to God, and not to man, to pass a judgment upon us at our death, or to conclude a dereliction on God's part upon the manner thereof.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
yarb commented on the word unto
Unto the stock, that hath been simmering
slowly for nearly twenty-four hours already,
cast ye a bushel of the following, mixed...
- Peter Reading, receipt, from Diplopic, 1983
June 29, 2008