Askance
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (adv.) With an indirect meaning; with suspicion or mistrust; skeptically, suspiciously.

2. (v. t.) To turn aside.

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At the Foot of the Bamboos
... The Chinese converts at first looked quite askance at what appeared to them an
effort to supersede their highly venerated Chinese character. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/v at the foot of.htm

Introduction
... origin of the sect. The Montanists did not look askance at voluntary martyrdom,
but rather encouraged it. [412] The Montanist movement ...
//christianbookshelf.org/richardson/early christian fathers/introduction 4.htm

Confession and Absolution
... a tax-gatherer, probably one of the most extortionate of his class, for the Pharisee
seems to hint as much; and I doubt not he cast his eye askance at this ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/confession and absolution.htm

The Demoniac of Gadara
... A mixed race was there, indifferent to religion, rearing great herds of swine, upon
which the law looked askance, but the profits of which they held so dear ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 5 1-20 the demoniac of.htm

What, Then, is Justice? we Distinctly Remember what in the Course ...
... deception arising from appearance, and thus drift away to the opposite; as happened,
we are told in the heathen fable, to the dog which looked askance at the ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxi what then is.htm

Of Liberality. ...
... the Church had redeemed. They themselves were harder than slavery itself
to look askance at another's mercy. If they themselves ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xv of liberality .htm

The Breach with Gregory of Nazianzus.
... He probably looked askance at the orthodoxy of Basil. Basil would never have called
him homopsuchos (Ep. ccx.. 5) if he had been unsound on the incarnation. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/vii the breach with gregory of.htm

With whom we are to Associate.
... but in those wretches which are a burden on the earth, and overlook the chaste widow,
who is of far higher value than a Melit??an pup, and look askance at a ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iv with whom we are.htm

Letter xxxviii. To Marcella.
... Therefore, if the scorpion looks askance upon her purpose, and with alluring words
tempts her once more to eat of the forbidden tree, she must crush him ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xxxviii to marcella.htm

Sanctification
... If you speak of holiness men look askance at you, and yet holiness is simply wholeness
or healthfulness and is to the soul what health is to the body. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and judas iscariot/sanctification.htm

Thesaurus
Askance (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Askance (1 Occurrence). Psalms 68:16 Why look ye askance,
ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? ...
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Ask (1255 Occurrences)

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Peaks (5 Occurrences)
... Bashan. (See JPS NAS). Psalms 68:16 Why look ye askance, ye high mountains,
At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea ...
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Asked (1840 Occurrences)

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Judah (802 Occurrences)
... The sons of Joseph evidently looked askance upon Judah's promotion, and their own
claims to hegemony were backed by considerable resources (49:22;). ...
/j/judah.htm - 101k

Desired (144 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Psalms 68:16 Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which
God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever. ...
/d/desired.htm - 34k

Abode (112 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Psalms 68:16 Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which
God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever. ...
/a/abode.htm - 36k

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Askance (1 Occurrence)

Psalms 68:16
Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever.
(ASV JPS)

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