supernatural virtue
Example Sentences
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He therefore carefully cherished in those about him the idea that there was in him a kind of supernatural virtue, and that he had the agents of an invisible world at his command.
From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
When Dr. Newman was ordained in 1824, he has told us, he did not look on ordination as a sacramental rite, nor did he ascribe to baptism any supernatural virtue.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
They readily accepted toys and trinkets, which, supposing them to be brought from heaven, possessed a supernatural virtue in their eyes.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
It was made to express, to represent God; but without attributing to the mere number ONE any divine or supernatural virtue.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
When worthy means of obtaining redress are exhausted it requires almost a supernatural virtue not to acquiesce in unworthy means.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
