Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedwarfs
Literary usage of Bedwarfs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal (1868)
"And certainly the neglect or careless performance of this duty, is one of the
chief causes that bedwarfs our religion, and makes us continue of so low ..."
2. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1871)
"... private institutions: we mean that kind of questioning in recitations which,
instead of stimulating and invigorating the mind, benumbs and bedwarfs it. ..."
3. The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A. by Robert Philip (1838)
"... to receive "the holy communion" frequently ; assuring him, that "nothing so
much bedwarfs us in religion, as staying away from the heavenly banquet. ..."
4. Selections from the World's Devotional Classics by Robert Scott, George William Gilmore (1916)
"And certainly the neglect or careless performance of this duty, is one of the
chief causes that bedwarfs our religion, and makes us continue of so low a ..."
5. The Spring-time of Life: Or, Advice to Youth by David Magie (1853)
"It is not the study of a self-existent God, a Deity incarnate, a throne of
judgment, and a world of retribution, that bedwarfs the mind. ..."
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