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Detach (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach;
as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man ...
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Destructive (14 Occurrences)

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Wean
... 2. (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object
of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. ...
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Detacheth (1 Occurrence)

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Belongs (127 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Luke 14:33 Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from
all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine. (WEY). ...
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Accommodation (1 Occurrence)
... It is perfectly legitimate to detach a writer's statement from its context of secondary
and incidental detail and give it a harmonious setting of wider ...
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Spinning
... The present method of carding, which no doubt is of ancient origin, is to pile the
wool on a mat and then detach the fibers from each other by snapping a bow ...
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Job (60 Occurrences)
... The whole archaic scene serves to detach the story from complex conditions of
civilization, and enables the writer to deal with the inherent and intrinsic ...
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Nero
... son. In order to detach him from his mother they encouraged him in an amour
with a Greek freedwoman, Acre (Tac. Ann. xiii.12). This ...
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Backslide
... The whole archaic scene serves to detach the story from complex conditions of
civilization, and enables the writer to deal with the inherent and intrinsic ...
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Bible Concordance

Detach (1 Occurrence)

Luke 14:33 Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.
(WEY)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

2. (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

3. (v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

Library

Letter xiv. --Abandonment in Trials.
... it is to gradually deprive it of everything that could turn its love away from Him;
because never would it have sufficient courage and strength to detach itself ...
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Letter xiv. --Explanations and Direction.
... Therefore He would not be satisfied with the exterior crosses and pains which detach
from creatures but desires to detach them from themselves, and to destroy ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xiv explanations and direction.htm

Letter xvi. --Detachment.
... PRIVATIONS. Letter XVI."Detachment. To Sister Marie-Thérèse de Vioménil.
Bitterness mingled with pleasure to detach the soul. 1st. I ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xvi detachment.htm

The Rash Builder
... And so we may combine these two in this statement: If any man is going to build
a Christlike life he will have to detach himself from surrounding things and ...
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Progress of Calvinism
... The authorities of Berne, having adopted the Zwinglian doctrine, thought that in
it they had a means at their hand to detach Geneva and Lausanne from any ...
/.../chapter iii progress of calvinism.htm

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Sebastian Franck: an Apostle of Inward Religion
... In him we have a Christian thinker who is able to detach himself from the theological
formulations of his own and of earlier times, and who could draw, with ...
/.../chapter iv sebastian franck an.htm

The Middle Colonies: the Jerseys, Delaware, and Pennsylvania --The ...
... the confirmations and reclamations, the setting up and overturning, which, after
the conquest of the New Netherlands, had the effect to detach the peninsula of ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter ix the middle colonies .htm

The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
... In spite of the difference in tone between the two parts of 2 Corinthians, there
is sufficient continuity of theme to make us hesitate to detach them. ...
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Subtopics

Detach

Related Terms

Destructive (14 Occurrences)

Wean

Detacheth (1 Occurrence)

Belongs (127 Occurrences)

Accommodation (1 Occurrence)