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  • 21Espousal —    That portion of the Marriage Service in which the contracting parties answer I will to the questions, N. wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife and N. wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband. This seems to be the remains of the old …

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  • 22Marriage — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Marriage >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 marriage marriage matrimony wedlock union intermarriage miscegenation the bonds of marriage vinculum matrimonii nuptial tie GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 married state married state …

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  • 23marriage — marriage, matrimony, wedlock, wedding, nuptial, espousal are comparable though not always synonymous because they all refer directly or indirectly to acts by which a man and woman become husband and. wife or to the state of being husband and wife …

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  • 24matrimony — marriage, matrimony, wedlock, wedding, nuptial, espousal are comparable though not always synonymous because they all refer directly or indirectly to acts by which a man and woman become husband and. wife or to the state of being husband and wife …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 25Mission San Juan Capistrano — This article is about the mission in California. For the mission of the same name in Texas, see Mission San Juan Capistrano (Texas). Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano, photochrom print by William Henry Jackson c. 1899.… …

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  • 26Joseph B. Soloveitchik — Infobox Person name = Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik image size = 186px caption = Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik of Yeshiva University birth date = February 27, 1903 birth place = Pruzhany, Belarus death date = Death date and age|1993|4|9|1903|2|27… …

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  • 27Leo Strauss — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Leo Strauss name = Leo Strauss birth = September 20, 1899 Kirchhain, Prussia, German Empire death = October 18, 1973 Annapolis, Maryland …

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  • 28History of Brazil (1930–1945) — Depression, coffee oligarchs, and the Revolution of 1930The Great DepressionThe tenente rebellion did not mark the revolutionary breakthrough of Brazil s bourgeois social reformers. But the ruling paulista coffee oligarchy could not withstand the …

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  • 29Christian mysticism — Union with Christ is the purpose of Christian mysticism. Christian mysticism refers to the development of mystical practices and theory within Christianity. It has often been connected to mystical theology, especially in the Catholic and Eastern… …

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  • 30Brethren of the Free Spirit — The Brothers, or Brethren of the Free Spirit (Brüder und Schwestern des Freien Geistes), was a lay Christian movement which flourished in northern Europe in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Antinomian and individualist in outlook, it came into… …

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