Definitions

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  • noun The state of being enlarged.

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  • noun The state or quality of being enlarged.

Etymologies

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enlarged +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • This vastness or enlargedness, which is not bounded by anything, however plain or simple it may be, increases every day.

    Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

  • This vastness or enlargedness, which is not bounded by anything, however plain or simple it may be, increases every day.

    The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon 1682

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  • In the duty itself is put forth no small part of the life, efficacy, and vigour of faith; and we come short of that enlargedness of spirit in dealing with God, and are straitened from walking in the breadth of his ways, which we are called unto, if we learn not ourselves to meet him with his worship in every way he is pleased to communicate himself unto us.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • And have not I infinitely more than an hundred fold, in so entire a possession as my Lord hast taken of me; in that unshaken firmness which is given me in my sufferings, in a perfect tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest, which assaults me on every side; in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness and liberty which I enjoy in a most straight and rigorous captivity.

    Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

  • Ah! she means that being in perfect liberty of spirit and enlargedness of soul, since she has no longer any selfish mixture in laboring for His glory, she will give Him the whole fruit of her breasts, and will cause Him to drink the milk with which He fills them.

    Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life 1879

  • Lord hast taken of me; in that unshaken firmness which is given me in my sufferings, in a perfect tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest, which assaults me on every side; in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness and liberty which I enjoy in a most straight and rigorous captivity.

    The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon 1682

  • And this was to show us that God's true gospel temple, which is his church, should have its enlargedness of heart still upward, or most for spiritual and eternal things: wherefore he saith, 'Thy heart shall fear and be enlarged,' that is, be most affected with things above, 'where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God'

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • What farther he might have had in his thoughts to do is known to Him whom he served so industriously and so faithfully in his spirit in the gospel while he was here on earth, and with whom he now enjoys the reward of all his labours and all his sufferings; for certain it is concerning Dr Owen, that as God gave him very transcendent abilities, so he did therewithal give him a boundless enlargedness of heart, and unsatiable desire to do service to

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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