impartation
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A story—an outward, objective fact, something which the imagination can body forth—often facilitates the impartation to another mind of a spiritual experience.
From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam
The men who are suspected of entertaining erroneous opinions concerning the method of Divine impartation of truth are the strenuous advocates of the moral grandeur, spiritual authority, and faith-sufficiency of the heavenly oracles.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Being human, He must be indebted to the Spirit for all impartation to His human nature of what is Divine.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
God Himself is the filler and the only filler of a human heart, and it is by this impartation of Himself and by nothing else that He bestows upon us the supply of our needs.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
It is a peculiar example of the unconscious impartation of objective existence to mental ideas.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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