dilection

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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Dated

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Dated

"1554, Dr. Martin [ Stephen Gardiner? ], Treatise on the Marriage of Priestes These words mine, and thine, proceeded first of iniquitie, because men did not observe mutual and natural dilection."
"And this was the first testimony of the infinite dilection of God towards man."
"A bone not far from his heart, to put him in mind of dilection and love to the woman."
"So free is Christ's dilection, that the grand condition of our felicity is our belief."

From Latin dilectio (“dilection”). See diligent.

dilections (plural)

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