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Example sentences for "more akin"

  • Of the creative arts, there is one part purer or more akin to knowledge than the other.

  • When we have discovered it, we will proceed to ask whether this omnipresent nature is more akin to pleasure or to mind.

  • For there may be a good higher than either pleasure or wisdom, and then neither of them will gain the first prize, but whichever of the two is more akin to this higher good will have a right to the second.

  • But if this life, which really has the power of making men happy, turn out to be more akin to pleasure than to wisdom, the life of pleasure may still have the advantage over the life of wisdom.

  • But the human mind is more akin to immaterial than to material things; since its own nature is immaterial, as is clear from what we have said above (Q.

  • God's image that God did not make any creature to be between Him and man: and therefore nothing is more akin to Him.

  • If therefore, the semen were produced from surplus food, the man begotten of such semen would be more akin to the cow and the pig, than to his father or other relations.

  • Turner treats it as Cahuillo; at the same time he remarks, and shews, that it is more akin to the San Luis Rey dialect than to any other.

  • This lies intermediate to the Hailtsa and Atna groups; being (apparently) more akin to the latter than the former.

  • Now if the Astec phonesis be more akin to the Selish and its congeners than to the Shoshoni and other interjacent forms of speech, we get an element of affinity which connects the more distant whilst it separates the nearer languages.

  • And God's view, strange to say, must be more akin to that of the plain man than to that of the philosopher or statistician.

  • In the last place come external goods, among which a man's good name takes precedence of wealth because it is more akin to spiritual goods, wherefore it is written (Prov.

  • But since the taste is more akin to the touch than the other senses are, it follows that temperance is more about the taste than about the other senses.

  • Now, since prudence is in the reason, the more spiritual vices seem to be more akin thereto, such as pride and vainglory.

  • Further, prudence is more akin to moral action than knowledge is.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    country called; more abundant; more agreeable; more akin; more ample; more ancient; more comfortable; more considerable; more correct; more curious; more danger; more death; more easily; more expensive; more frequent; more generally; more glorious; more parts; more perfect; more positive; more primitive; more rapidly; more serious; more slowly; more things; while even