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Definition of Refinds
1. refind [v] - See also: refind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refinds
Literary usage of Refinds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1908)
"... in all the tales the god is loved by a goddess, who loses and refinds him,
who mourns over his death, and ends by receiving him back to life. ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1860)
"Man's ancient mother weeps the deed this day, That shut the gates of heaven
against her race, • Weeps the two pierced hands whose work of grace refinds the ..."
3. Prize essays on leprosy by Edvard Ehlers, George Newman, Samuel Patton Impey (1895)
"So this disease, which one almost considers as prehistoric, can strike root there
where Hansen's bacillus refinds its favourite soil of uncleanliness, ..."
4. The Modern Review by Richard Acland Armstrong (1880)
"In this way theology gains by losing, and it refinds the persistent energy of
its life in higher forms. The seeming opposition between theology and ..."
5. A Physician's Counsels to Woman, in Health and Disease by Walter C. Taylor (1871)
"... their accustomed vivacity and brilliancy; but after the birth of the child,
these accidents cease to exist, and the wife refinds her pristine splendor. ..."
6. Can We be Sure of Mortality?: A Lawyer's Brief by William Atwell Cheney (1910)
"... consciousness and knowledge of speech was builded into the individual and
refinds expression? What has become of the cells, of their individualities? ..."