Just as to cease from evil is a kind of good, so a prohibition is a kind of precept: and accordingly, taking precept in a wide sense, every law is a kind of precept.
But if pain be taken in a wide sense, then it is the genus of sorrow, as stated above.
We may also say that Augustine is taking covetousness in a wide sense, for any movement of the appetite in respect of good to come: so that it includes both love and hope.
The name hell is applied in a wide sense to all those secret abodes in which are detained the souls of those who have not obtained the happiness of heaven--viz.
In addition to laws strictly so-called, there are laws in a wide sense, commands or provisions made by ecclesiastical superiors that have not all the conditions given above (see 285) for law.
The act of faith before justification is meritorious congruously and in a wide sense; but after justification it has condign merit (see 110).
If, however, prudence be taken in a wide sense, as including also speculative knowledge, as stated above (Q.
In one way it may be taken in a wide sense as denoting reverence paid to anyone on account of any kind of excellence, and thus it comprises piety and observance, and any similar virtue whereby reverence is shown towards a man.
Thirdly, in a wide sense a thing is said to be passive, from the very fact that what is in potentiality to something receives that to which it was in potentiality, without being deprived of anything.
But sometimes miracle may be taken in a wide sense, for whatever exceeds the human power and experience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wide sense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
