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Definition of Shuns
1. shun [v] - See also: shun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuns
Literary usage of Shuns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem: Concerning the Lord, the Sacred by Emanuel Swedenborg (1839)
"Nevertheless, those same actions above enumerated are inwardly good, if a man
shuns evils as sins; as the evils of fraud, of adultery, of hatred, ..."
2. The Four Leading Doctrines of the New Church Signified in the Revelation by Emanuel Swedenborg (1842)
"From what has been said, these three consequences follow : I. That if a man wills
and does what is good, before he shuns evils as sins, the good things ..."
3. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1897)
"Secondly, so far as one does not profane the name of God, that is, so far as he
shuns the lusts arising from the loves of self and of the world, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and for the composition of music necessary to give force and effect to such
words, the mind shuns everything affected and fantastic, and seeks an asylum ..."
5. The Four Leading Doctrines of the New Church by Emanuel Swedenborg (1873)
"I. The reason why the good things which a man wills and does are not good, before
he shuns evils as sins, is, because, before this, he is not in the Lord: ..."
6. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... consisting chiefly of Civilians —He shuns connecting himself with James, but
refuses to enter into any other Interest—The Quarrel with Essex—Essex's ..."
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