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  • 81hope — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Confidence Nouns 1. hope[s], desire; trust, confidence, optimism, reliance, faith, belief; assurance, secureness, security; reassurance. See safety. 2. (omen of hope) good omen or auspices, promise; good …

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  • 82resignation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Giving up Nouns 1. resignation, demission, retirement, abdication, withdrawal, surrender, quitting; relinquishment. See submission. 2. resignedness, patience, forbearance, long suffering, sufferance,… …

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  • 83Submission — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Submission >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 submission submission yielding Sgm: N 1 nonresistance nonresistance Sgm: N 1 obedience obedience &c. 743 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 surrender surrender cession …

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  • 84Compromise — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Compromise >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 compromise compromise commutation composition Sgm: N 1 middle term middle term mezzo termine Sgm: N 1 compensation compensation &c. 30 Sgm: N 1 abatement of differences abatement …

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  • 85make\ the\ best\ of — v. phr. To do something you do not like to do and not complain; accept with good humor. The girl did not like to wash dishes but she made the best of it. Compare: make a virtue of necessity …

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  • 86moving — moving, impressive, poignant, affecting, touching, pathetic are comparable when they mean having the power to excite or the effect of exciting deep and usually saddening and solemn emotion. Moving, the most general of these words, can be used in… …

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  • 87Actual Grace — • A grace that is given for the performance of salutary acts and is present and disappears with the action itself Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Actual Grace     Actual Grace …

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  • 88Whewell’s philosophy of science and ethics — Struan Jacobs ON SCIENCE Introduction Among the most prodigious of English minds of the nineteenth century, William Whewell (1794–1866) was at various times, and among other things, philosopher, intellectual historian, scientist, educationist,… …

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  • 89The Sacrament of Penance —     The Sacrament of Penance     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Sacrament of Penance     Penance is a sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest s absolution to… …

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  • 90Ethics — • Many writers regard ethics as any scientific treatment of the moral order and divide it into theological, or Christian, ethics (moral theology) and philosophical ethics (moral philosophy) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ethics …

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