Meanings of proper cause in English

Therefore Christ's Passion is not the proper cause of the forgiveness of sins.

Because an effect is not produced without its proper cause.

Therefore operation is not the proper cause of pleasure.

Therefore self-love cannot be the proper cause of sin.

Therefore contemplation is not the proper cause of devotion.

For that which is good and right in itself is not the proper cause of sin.

Place them then to their proper cause, and take the reproach of them to your own side.

Such attacks are usually traceable to their proper cause, the removal of which is followed by prompt recovery.

Returning to London he had himself checked again and was finally told the proper cause of his malaise.

Therefore, wherever we find peculiar effects of that separatory operation, we have a right to infer the proper cause.

She had a peculiar expression of countenance, which I was unable at the moment to refer to its proper cause.

The Word of God is no proper cause of this effect: it does not operate by any natural force in it.

In this point, many who have tried the electrotype process have failed, attributing their ill success to other than the proper cause.

We believe ship inspections should be enforced according to relevant international and domestic law, and one should have ample evidence and proper cause.

It may be that he has proper cause, but the result is that he is not inclined to meet me on friendly terms.

Mercédès noticed her condition, and, ascribing it to its proper cause, strove in a motherly way to rouse and console her, but without effect.