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Definition of Compellations
1. compellation [n] - See also: compellation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compellations
Literary usage of Compellations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primitive Doctrine of Election: Or, An Historical Inquiry Into the by George Stanley Faber (1842)
"Nor is the tenor of the apostolic compellations the sole direct proof of the ...
To cite these compellations at full length is superfluous; the attentive ..."
2. Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty by Ralph Erskine (1794)
"From the compellations given to Chrift with relation to believers. ... betwixt Chrift
and believers -appears from the compellations given to believers in ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"Esop, instead of mutual love, kind compellations, whore and thief is heard, they
fling stools at one another's heads. ..."
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