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Definition of Groanings
1. groaning [n] - See also: groaning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groanings
Literary usage of Groanings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"4) of the revelation disclosed to the human soul in the divine word, and
the "groanings which can not 3. The be uttered" (Rom. viii. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... shake their eads, and look doubtfully at one another, unable to distinguish
a single word intelligible to them of all his lengthened groanings. ..."
3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"The tnie and eminent grounds of a Christians groanings afier dissolution, severed
from the false grounds of other men.—That a Christian doth not desire ..."
4. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"Such expressions may take any form,—inarticulate, as in groanings; articulate,
as in exclamations, or more detailed statement summarized as complaints, ..."
5. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"The whole Beranek family baths itself on Saturday nights in the bath-room adjoining
my "apartment," and does it with unspeakable groanings. ..."
6. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1860)
"as the great object which they and their fathers have sought with groanings which
cannot be uttered. Who can wonder that they have been a people willing in ..."
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