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  • 1PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… …

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  • 2clean — I. a. 1. Unstained, unspotted, spotless, unsoiled, unsullied, immaculate, cleanly, neat. 2. Unadulterated, unmixed, pure, purified, clarified. 3. Neat, delicate, shapely, graceful, light, dexterous, adroit, free from bungling. 4. Entire, complete …

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  • 3white — I. adjective (whiter; whitest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwīt; akin to Old High German hwīz white and probably to Old Church Slavic světŭ light, Sanskrit śveta white, bright Date: before 12th century 1. a. free from color b. of… …

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  • 4immaculate — /ɪˈmækjulət / (say i makyoohluht), / kjə / (say kyuh ) adjective 1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean, as linen. 2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure, or undefiled. 3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors, as a text. 4.… …

  • 5immaculate — immaculacy /i mak yeuh leuh see/, immaculateness, n. immaculately, adv. /i mak yeuh lit/, adj. 1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen. 2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled. 3. free from fault or flaw;… …

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  • 6immaculate — im•mac•u•late [[t]ɪˈmæk yə lɪt[/t]] adj. 1) free from spot or stain: immaculate linen[/ex] 2) free from moral blemish or impurity; pure 3) free from errors: an immaculate text[/ex] • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME < L immaculātus. See im II,… …

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  • 7Conditional preservation of the saints — The Five Articles of Remonstrance Conditional election Unlimited atonement Total depravity …

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  • 8Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …

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  • 9LITERATURE, JEWISH — Literature on Jewish themes and in languages regarded as Jewish has been written continuously for the past 3,000 years. What the term Jewish literature encompasses, however, demands definition, since Jews have lived in so many countries and have… …

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  • 10PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …

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