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Definition of Adorning
1. adorn [v] - See also: adorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adorning
Literary usage of Adorning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1836)
"Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of—wearing of gold, or of
putting on of apparel. 1. ST. PAUL exhorts a'i those who desire to " be ..."
2. Sermons to Young Women by James Fordyce (1809)
"SERMON XIII. ON FEMALE MEEKNESS. 1 PET. iii. 3, 4. Whose adorning, let it not be
that ... adorning of plaiting the lair, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"But he reigned over a part of the globe incapable of perpetuating and adorning
the glory of its heroes. TL« name of Hermanne is almost buried '.n oblivion ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And the good women are those that fear God, that have the adorning of the hidden
man of the heart, that have the array of Sarah. ..."
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