Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) Plural of Excellency.
Greek
703. arete -- moral goodness, ie virtue ... Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition moral goodness, ie virtue NASB Word Usage
excellence (2),
excellencies (1), moral excellence (2). praise, virtue.
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The Excellencies of the Saints' Rest.
... CHAPTER III. THE EXCELLENCIES OF THE SAINTS' REST. ... Let us draw a little nearer,
and see what further excellencies this rest affordeth. ...
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The Excellencies of the Sun I Found to be of Another Kind than ...
... THE THIRD CENTURY 20 The excellencies of the Sun I found to be of another kind
than that splendour after which I sought. The excellencies ...
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Theservices of Things and their Excellencies are Spiritual: Being ...
... THE FIRST CENTURY 26 Theservices of things and their excellencies are spiritual:
being objects not of the eye. Theservices of things ...
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But what is There More that Will More Amaze Us? Can Anything be ...
... Can anything be behind such glorious mysteries? Is God more Sovereign in other
excellencies? ... Is God more Sovereign in other excellencies? ...
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What is Meant by "Altogether Lovely"
... As a theologian long ago said, "There is nothing in him which is not loveable."
The excellencies of Jesus Christ are perfectly exclusive of all their opposites ...
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Mirrors of God
... The Revised Version, instead of 'praises,' reads excellencies"and even that is
but a feeble translation of the remarkable word here employed. ...
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The Nature of Heavenly Contemplation; with the Time, Place, and ...
... Christ and heaven have various excellencies, and therefore God hath formed the
soul with different powers for apprehending these excellencies. ...
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Of the Use of Speech.
... substituted by God as his Viceregent, to receive the homage, and enjoy the services
of all inferior beings: nay, farther was endowed with excellencies fit to ...
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Application
... Proclaim his excellencies to the world, as the spouse did in these verses. Persuade
them how much your beloved is better than any other beloved. ...
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The Life of Mr. Andrew Gray.
... Among his other excellencies in preaching (which were many) this was none of the
least, that he could so order his subject as to make it relish every palate. ...
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Thesaurus
Excellencies (1 Occurrence)... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Excellency. Multi-Version Concordance
Excellencies (1 Occurrence). 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are
.../e/excellencies.htm - 7kVirtue (21 Occurrences)
... and American); as also in its plural use (of God) in 1 Peter 2:9 (the King James
Version "praises," the Revised Version (British and American) "excellencies"). ...
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Wonderful (71 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people
for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has ...
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Excellences (1 Occurrence)
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Excellency (53 Occurrences)
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Redeemer (42 Occurrences)
... life. This, of course, does not mean that the redeemed life gives itself
up to the cultivation of itself toward higher excellencies. ...
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Adoration
... 4. The Deity: The highest form of adoration is that which is directed immediately
to God Himself, His kingly attributes and spiritual excellencies being so ...
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Redemption (46 Occurrences)
... life. This, of course, does not mean that the redeemed life gives itself
up to the cultivation of itself toward higher excellencies. ...
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Elect (32 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
for 'God's' own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who ...
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Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
... Peter 2:9, 10: "But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him ...
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