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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Promise.

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Examples

  • And as it is said, he made the plagues of Egypt, he departed and divided the Red Sea, he led the people of Israel by the desert and set them in the land of promission, he is had among the company of holy angels as bannerer, and bearing the sign of our Lord, he shall slay by the commandment of God, right puissantly, Antichrist that shall be in the Mount of Olivet.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • And on that other side, for to use the charity of Christ was to him life, world, and promission and all goods without number.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • Litere continentes promission em regis ad tradenum cas -

    Notes on the State of Virginia 1853

  • I gave Labeech promission to proceed on early this morning a head and kill a fat Elk or Buffalow. our horses haveing rambled to a long distance down the river detained us much later than Common. we did not

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Oh yes. sorry, i got it from the msn. com do i need promission to take photos from there?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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