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- noun Plural form of
imaum .
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Examples
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It is no less skilful at causing a solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid.
Les Miserables 2008
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He did not assail her with the eloquence of any imaums or Mussulman saints; he did not press upon her the eternal truths of the
Eothen 2003
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It is no less skilful at causing a solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid.
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Urged on by their dervishes and imaums, who had flocked to the host of Saracens to remind them that they were fighting in the cause of the prophet, they became more and more eager for carnage and blood, and the Crusaders less and less capable of a stubborn resistance.
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It is no less skilful at causing a solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The outside of the mosque is adorned with towers, vastly high, gilt on the top, from whence the imaums
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724
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He did not assail her with the eloquence of any imaums or Mussulman saints; he did not press upon her the eternal truths of the “Cow,” {41} or the beautiful morality of “the
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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