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  • noun Plural form of refreshing.

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Examples

  • No ear can hear, no tongue can utter, and no heart can understand the sweet incomes and the refreshings of the spirit of the Lord, which I now feel.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

  • And next vnto these commeth the chiefe physicion, who is an olde man of authoritie, hauing with him many medicines, oyntments, salues, and other like refreshings for the sicke, hauing also camels with him for the sicke to ride on, which haue no horse nor beast.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Carouan of Falchines, with euery one a basket on his head full of some fruites or other delicates or refreshings, and with cleane clothes: it chaunced that this Carauan passing by Martauan, and resting themselues there a night, there happened betweene the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • At his Diet he was very sparing and temperate, but yet he allowed himself the repasts and refreshings of two Meals a day: but no lover of Danties, or the Inventions of

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • And while there may be many refreshings, girdings, illuminations, and secret tokens and assurances of love and favour, there is no third blessing in this large sense, in this present time.

    When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle

  • Belcher, the royal governor at Boston, fairly slobbered over him, with tears and embraces and kisses; and the devout Governor Talcott, at New Haven, gave God thanks, after listening to the great preacher, “for such refreshings on the way to our rest.”

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

  • And so, unprofitably, the journey was beguiled, not without frequent stoppings and refreshings, each of which had the effect of exhilarating

    My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • God thanks, after listening to the great preacher, "for such refreshings on the way to our rest."

    A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

  • Then he told them how he had his refreshings there every Lord's-day from even to even, and from Christmas to Epiphany, and from Easter to

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • The congregation enjoyed repeated refreshings from on high, under his ministry, beside that great and general awakening which pervaded the country at large from the years 1802 onward for five or six years, a part of which time he resided at Fayetteville, and part at Poplar Tent.

    Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

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