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Meanings of inordinate love in English

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Usage of inordinate love in English
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Now ordinate love belongs to charity; while inordinate love belongs to wickedness.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
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One thing that invariably amused me was his inordinate love of uniforms.
The Princess Elopes
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Then also shall immoderate fear depart from thee, and inordinate love shall die.
The Imitation of Christ
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An inordinate love of gain, a close-fisted, hoarding disposition will have kindred effects.
In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Ple...
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Truly we deceive ourselves by the inordinate love which we bear towards the flesh.
The Imitation of Christ
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It is a false, inordinate love of thyself, from whence flow all the deadly sins.
Christian Mysticism
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Charles II, as we have seen, lived solely to gratify his inordinate love of pleasure.
The Leading Facts of English History
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How can it be purified of all other inordinate love except by dryness and bitterness?
Life of Father Hecker
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But, in venial sin, the soul is in contact with a temporal thing through inordinate love.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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One of them (1) is the inordinate love of wealth.
Laws
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Mrs. Harrington began to see her way; already her inordinate love of power was at work.
The Grey Lady
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Y: And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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There were reformers in plenty, but their inordinate love of publicity ruined the effectiveness of their work.
Half a Rogue
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From inordinate love and vain fear ariseth all disquietude of heart, and all distraction of the senses.
The Imitation of Christ
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The inordinate love they have for themselves and for created things, which they love apart from God.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
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He is said to have combined a cynical contempt of mankind with an inordinate love of praise.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 / Devoted t...
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