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Definition of Spurners
1. spurner [n] - See also: spurner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurners
Literary usage of Spurners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"For now the gods, having warded off the spurners ... does the Sacrificer now,
having warded off the spurners, evil, now perform this rite freed from evil. ..."
2. Sermons by Hugh Latimer (1906)
"... and that is, Contra- dicentes convincere, " To reprehend, to convince, to
confute gainsayers, and spurners against the truth." " Why," you will say, ..."
3. Sermons by Hugh Latimer (1906)
"... oftentimes to use another; and that is, Contra- dicentes convincere, " To
reprehend, to convince, to confute gainsayers, and spurners against the truth. ..."
4. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... lawless passions, we could almost be tempted to think that real freedom should
never be the birthright of such spurners of the laws of God and man. ..."
5. The International Standard: A Magazine Devoted to the Discussion and (1885)
"... The stone one missing is, we know not where, Our "Head" and "Cornerstone"
shall yet return, Nor then be spurned, but all the spurners spurn. ..."
6. The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55 by Willem van Ruysbroeck (1900)
"The Council of Lyons had been convened more especially for the purpose of "
finding a remedy for the Tartars and other spurners of the faith and persecutors ..."
7. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1886)
"The spurners of the Gospel are guilty of disloyalty. The hand outstretched in
merciful solicitation may become the clenched fist of retribution. ..."
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