This was in every case the commutation or relaxation of the penance or outward sign of sorrow which had been imposed according to the regulations of the Church, laid down in the Penitentiaries (relaxatio de injuncta poenitentia).
It offers a sensible thing, that is, some object perceptible by the senses or hidden under sensible species; for sacrifice is an outward sign of the inner offering, by which the soul itself is subjected to God.
A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace.
Water, therefore, is used in Baptism as an outward sign to show that as the water cleans the body, so the grace given in Baptism cleans the soul.
Another will scarcely show an outward sign of the disease and yet will be riddled by one destructive internal change after another.
Both men had been drinking freely, but both were well seasoned, and, save for their flushed faces, there was no outward sign of the quantity of wine they had imbibed.
He had moments wherein he was half mad, not with the fear of death, but with the love of life; yet his madness had so much method in it that he gave no outward sign of it, lest his alertness for some means of escape might be suspected.
Lablache noted the haughty manner and resented it, but still he gave no outward sign.
Whatever the cause, as he passed a slip of paper into the pool merely seeing his opponent, his face gave no outward sign of what was passing in the brain behind it.
She showed no outward sign, and very little interest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outward sign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
