Sentences with phrase «modern usage of the word»

Luther practically invented the modern usage of the word «vocation.»

However, modern usage of the word means the unfolding of the Scripture message in terms of the modern setting.

Not exact matches

Now this variety of usage in the biblical talk of God (and modern scholarship has shown that the biblical statements can not all be neatly fitted together into a systematic whole, in the way some earlier Christian thinkers assumed that to be possible) makes it clear that the Bible is not wedded to any particular form of words concerning God.

DAN... calling all religions cults is rather shortsighted as you are not differentiating between the archaic definition of the word «cult» from the modern usage.

In the United States, we do not have lords as part of our social system so for our understanding of the word in modern usage we have to look across the sea to the United Kingdom where they still have parliament that includes a House of Lords.

However, it is interesting that AME never refers to «same gender marriage», even though «gender» is part of modern English usage and the word may appear on forms requiring personal information.

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But traditional mode of writing may not prove effective in the modern world because pedantic words and usages distract readers from going through the same.

Not merely a dictionary of science fiction terms, this is a resource of all the words from science fiction that have been absorbed into popular culture, defining them from their earliest known appearance in science fiction writing through modern usage.

Wilson Follett, Modern American Usage 428 («The first and by far the greatest help to reading is the compulsory hyphening that makes a single adjective out of two words before a noun....

But as Bryan Garner notes in Garner's Modern American Usage, deem «is a formal word that imparts the flavor of archaism.

Besides Garner and Trimble above, Eric Partridge (Usage and Abusage), Sir Ernest Gowers (The Complete Plain Words), H.W Fowler (A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Ernest Gowers ed.