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- adjective Not
Christlike .
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- adjective not becoming to or like a Christian
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Examples
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I do not want to be unchristlike, but I believe what Carol said is true-we should not be wandering house to house being idle, nor should we encourage those who do.
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I had to admit that the other man had transgressed, and that the money ought to be returned, but that he should have been more grieved over the unchristlike spirit of his brother than over the loss of the five dollars, and that like Sutajeff he should have said,
When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle
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No; surely that would be a very unchristlike way of spending Sunday.
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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We test every Scripture by the Spirit of Christ in us: whatever is to us unchristlike in Joshua or in Paul, in a psalmist or in the seer on Patmos, is not for us the word of our God: whatever breathes the Spirit of Jesus from _Genesis_ to _Revelation_ is to us our
Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915
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Our lips are too unchristlike, face to face with such an act as this, to say amen for the prayer of mercy on this wretch.
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He did so by speaking out against "the unchristlike attitude of Christians" and what he then saw as his fellow Christian's "Jewish bigotry."
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He did so by speaking out against "the unchristlike attitude of Christians" and what he then saw as his fellow Christian's "Jewish bigotry."
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He did so by speaking out against "the unchristlike attitude of Christians" and what he then saw as his fellow Christian's "Jewish bigotry."
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He did so by speaking out against "the unchristlike attitude of Christians" and what he then saw as his fellow Christian's "Jewish bigotry."
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He did so by speaking out against "the unchristlike attitude of Christians" and what he then saw as his fellow Christian's "Jewish bigotry."
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