Example Sentences

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Oh! how I execrate myself for this double-mindedness which prevents my serving one Master and God.”

From Bethink Yourselves! by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)

But this double-mindedness, as I have tried to show, was necessary; and therefore to lament over it is weak.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Why this double-mindedness in the same educated individual?

From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John

It was Alick's fate never to meet with sympathy in his feeling of his sister's double-mindedness.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He justifies his double-mindedness to himself, no doubt, as he does to the world, by working wisely, indefatigably, and bravely: but still he has put his trust in princes, and in the children of men.

From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Kingsley, Charles