sacred writ
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While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2020
It showed men how to understand certain passages of sacred writ respecting the earth and heavenly bodies which they had before misinterpreted.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Nor write, nor speak you more of sacred writ, But what shall force up your arrested wit.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
Some of these are to be found in sacred writ, of which the riddle which Samson proposed to the young men of Timnath, is a very ancient and curious specimen.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
Strange that the other inspired penmen should have left altogether unchronicled this touching episode in sacred writ.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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