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Definition of Belying
1. belie [v] - See also: belie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belying
Literary usage of Belying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dragon, Image, and Demon: Or, The Three Religions of China by Hampden C. DuBose (1886)
"... Nothing can escape the eye of Heaven ; " " Man has a thousand "belying on
Heaven, we Eat Bice." men, you cannot deceive Heaven; are appointed by Heaven. ..."
2. The Philosophy of History by Rudolf Rocholl, Augustus Schade (1899)
"la the meanwhile other feelings usurp the function of deciding what is necessary,
belying the ego as to the necessity of the secondary good, by denying it ..."
3. A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of st. Peter by Robert Leighton (1849)
"... and belying the practices of Christians, making their assemblies horrible and
vile by false imputations ; and thus are they often necessitated to ..."
4. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"... because it is belying the Holy Ghost, denying his work in him, so there is no
sin to which that doubting can so properly be reduced as unbelief. ..."
5. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (1802)
"Surely this general remark contains no belying of the Church ot England, any more
than it is an ... and dill farther from belying the Church of England, ..."
6. The Life of President Edwards by Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830)
"... because it is belying the Holy Ghost, denying his work in him, so there is no
sin to which that doubting can so properly be reduced as unbelief. ..."
7. The Life of President Edwards by Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830)
"... because it is belying the Holy Ghost, denying his work in him, so there is no
sin to which that doubting can so properly be reduced as unbelief. ..."
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