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graven

adjective as in engraved

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Even when Levon Helm was young, he had a voice that spoke to you with the authority of something graven in stone.

They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?

Of all these graven images existed, carved by men's hands,--some in the form of animals, like the winged bulls of Nineveh.

"Ay, with the cross graven on it," I answered; and my words checked a laugh that was on Evan's lips.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to graven, such as: carved, etched, and sculptured.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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