Alcoran
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Alcoranic adjective
Example Sentences
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Incorrectly called the Alcoran, l'Alcoran, or il Alcorano, 351.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
Alcoran likewise signifies lecture and is only a literal translation of the word law.
From The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)
How grossly are they mistaken to suppose slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran!
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
Golden on his trappings shining Blessing of the Alcoran!
From Russian Lyrics by Bianchi, Martha Dickinson
"I had rather," he says, "believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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