And whereas thou sayest that I said, the devil counterfeits the new birth by persuading to follow the light of the world.
Now he counterfeits the new birth, persuading them, that it is wrought by following the light that they brought into the world with them.
One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
An expert in counterfeits also took up his position inside the cage, to signal the men outside as soon as a phony bill was presented.
Defn: One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
At his appearance the young dive in all directions, while the mothercounterfeits lameness to distract his attention from them to herself, or springs from the water and attacks the Gull until he is compelled to retire from the contest.
The hen bird when surprised with her young brood counterfeits lameness, and runs about in great anxiety, as if wishing to draw attention from her chicks to herself.
Thus, in all realms of art, counterfeits of art are manufactured to a ready-made, prearranged recipe, and these counterfeits the public of our upper classes accept for real art.
All the best that has been done in art by man remains strange to people who lack the capacity to be infected by art, and is replaced either by spurious counterfeits of art or by insignificant art, which they mistake for real art.
And the young artist sets to work to copy those who are held up for his imitation, and he produces not only feeble works, but false works,--counterfeits of art.
These show us what to look for in art, how to distinguish it from counterfeits (XV.
And this substitution of counterfeits for real works of art was the third and most important consequence of the separation of the art of the upper classes from universal art.
Semblances and counterfeits of men fill up the habitable earth, people the islands and the continents, the country and the town.
Do you think thosecounterfeits had anything to do with the crime?
But one thing is certain, the counterfeits were in his private safe, and from all accounts that safe had not been opened since his death.
But this only made the mystery connected with the counterfeits in the safe so much deeper.
The government has been hot-footed after your counterfeits ever since they were first marketed.
I think so, but if the counterfeits were found the local authorities haven't said a word.
Few admonitions of our frail mortality can be more solemn and more sad, or strike so home upon the heart, as the counterfeits of Youth and Beauty that are lying there, upon their beds, in their last sleep.
No, Cupid counterfeits the nightingale, To frame sweet music to Horatio's tale.
An Advertisement of a way of making more livelyCounterfeits of Nature in Wax, then are extant in Painting: And of a new kind of Maps in a low Relievo.
An intimation of a way of making more lively Counterfeits of Nature in Wax, then are extant in Painting; and of a new kind of Maps in a low Relievo, or Sculpture, both practised in France.
And as few as these apparently are, they are even less upon closer examination, since only the counterfeits of anything of real moral value can be purchased for money.
In considering the advantages of real love, it is also important that the disadvantages of its counterfeits should be made clear.
Because of this fact, and because many of them have actually franked letters through the post, these counterfeits are more valuable to the collector than the corresponding genuine specimens.
Besides these counterfeits which are made exclusively for the collector, and which, therefore, are worth nothing, is another class of counterfeits which have been made exclusively to swindle governments.
But thecounterfeits were sold for a few cents each.
There are no counterfeits of United States stamps or stamped envelopes, except in two instances: 1.
The existence of stolen notes or counterfeits on a bank is noted upon these lists, and special directions for assortment are conveyed in the same manner.
Failing, however, to find any of the same denomination, he presented the supposed counterfeits to a broker skilled in detecting bad bills, and was surprised to be informed that they were genuine.
The broker pronounced the supposed counterfeitsto be genuine.
Or, can it be possible that we have many counterfeits without a genuine?
There is no analogy between these counterfeitsor myths and the “true God,” save that remote power of God which is divided up and parceled out among them.
There are many counterfeitsof the New Orleans Confederate local.
Some maintain, the States having made it penal to pass counterfeits of the notes of the United States' Bank, is in proof of their recognizing the constitutionality of the institution.
Such temporal war and bate As now is made of late Against holy church estate, Or to mountain good quarrels; The laymen call them barrels Full of gluttony and of hypocrisy, That counterfeits and paints As they were very saints.
Two priests accompanied the insurgents, not Wycliffe's followers, but the licentious counterfeitsof them, who trod inevitably in their footsteps, and were as inevitably countenanced by their doctrines.
First, I find the halfpence were milled, which, as it is of great use to prevent counterfeits (and therefore industriously avoided by Wood) so it was an addition to the charge of coinage.
Unable to escape, it counterfeits death, and remains perfectly immovable.
The fifth verse is especially important in connection with the subject of counterfeits to the truth: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Though false systems of doctrine have always existed, counterfeits in hypocrisy are a distinct characteristic of the last days of the present age.
The letters of the genuine autograph have smooth, unhesitating lines; those of the counterfeitspresent certain minute irregularities that are inseparable from pains-taking and slow execution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counterfeits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
