Tenth Commandment

American  

noun

1. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's”: tenth of the Ten Commandments.

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Tenth Commandment

Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

The Tenth Commandment which forbids us to covet our neighbor's goods, bears the same relation to the Seventh as the Ninth does to the Sixth.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton

A. By the Tenth Commandment we are commanded to be content with what we have, and to rejoice in our neighbor's welfare.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

Covetousness comes under the Tenth Commandment, and is forbidden by it.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

"There must be a way of not breaking the Tenth Commandment."

From The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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