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- noun Plural form of
fatling .
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Examples
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Compare Eze 39: 18, where the fatlings are the rich and great (1Co 1: 26, 27).
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By the "fatlings" are intended the Fathers of the New Testament; who while they receive sweet grace of inward fattening, are raised by the wing of contemplation from earthly desires to things above.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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You consume their milk and cover yourselves with their wool; you kill the fatlings, but my sheep you do not pasture.
The shepherds who feed themselves Argent 2006
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Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats.
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And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
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And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
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I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats.
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Sadly, my father and thousands of other good men were herded like fatlings for the kill when their superiors ordered them to the atomic gallows at Bikini Atoll.
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