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Definition of Fusting
1. fust [v] - See also: fust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusting
Literary usage of Fusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"When their devout minds were sufficiently prepared, by a course of prayer, of
fusting, and of vigils, to receive the extraordinary impulse, ..."
2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1863)
"Week after week tho mother «Is by the sick-bod, and welcomes fusting and vigils ;
her watchfulness surround» her child, and with all the means and ..."
3. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"With true prayers That shall be up nt heaven and enter there Ere sunrise —prayers
from preserved souls, From fusting ..."
4. Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay Whitney (1907)
"... fusting, .mil prayer have been taken out "i ili'1 iml Mu \ papers and put in
a class by ..."
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