exilic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of exilic
Example Sentences
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But he has learned to combine the possibilities of exilic experimentation with the rigor of that training ground.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021
V. S. Naipaul, Taseer’s former mentor, is repeatedly mentioned in the book, and it is written in his exilic spirit.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019
The comparison of the earlier prophetic writings with the exilic prophecies, and with the later writings, such as Jonah, Ecclesiastes, &c., will illustrate this change.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber
To such impracticable ideals, for that age, did this exilic movement of the new religion look, with sober, strenuous, systematic effort for their realization; and therein may we see its intensity of moral life.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber
The only reason for the attempt to separate Leviticus xxvi. from xvii.-xxv. lies in the fact, that the exilic or post-exilic origin of this hortatory and denunciatory oration is too plain to be mistaken.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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