Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a creature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being a creature.
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- noun The condition of being a
creature .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He declares the work sound on some points, but adds that it contains "impieties and fables", such as the eternity of matter, the creatureship of the Word, plurality of words (Logoi),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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All these are so tainted with creatureship, so limited and conditioned, that it is hardly too much to say that they are, at their best, deceptive endowments.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887
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At first it had shocked him to see it on the Academy's wall; but it soon came to have no other relation to him than that of creatureship, like a poem in which a poet celebrates his love or laments his dead, and sells for a price.
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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I had almost said (bear with the expression, I use it, because no other expression can reach it) sin sets us as much beneath our creatureship, as our creatureship sets us beneath the Creator.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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God of holiness, in such high and holy engagements, in whom, when God looks out of Himself, He can behold nothing besides our creatureship, of our own, but that which His soul hates!
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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There is something more than the finiteness of our creatureship to disturb us now, in our pursuit of truth.
Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862 S.C. 1862: Columbia 1862
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Intellectual creatureship, social order, human progress, are inconceivable and impossible without the idea of God, and of accountability to God.
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