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Example sentences for "mere form"

  • I believe there are tens of thousands whose prayers are nothing but a mere form,--a set of words repeated by rote, without a thought about their meaning.

  • It was because their religion was a mere form.

  • This is turning Bible reading into a mere form.

  • Nay, rather, it is teaching which is calculated to do immense harm to men's souls, and to turn the reception of the sacrament into a mere form.

  • From a mere form of the movement exchange value becomes its substance.

  • The motive and essence of sale for the sake of payment becomes from a mere form of the process of circulation its self emanating substance.

  • Hence the teleological view is a mere form of human representation, a subjective principle.

  • Space is a mere form of combination in representation or for the observer, and yet it is objective, i.

  • Pleasure in mere form, without a concept, and without the idea of an end, is impossible.

  • Both Abbott and Bowne regard righteousness as a mere form of benevolence, and the atonement as only a means to a utilitarian end, namely, the restoration and happiness of the creature.

  • The chief psychological defect of New School theology, next to its making holiness to be a mere form of love, is its ignoring of the unconscious and subconscious elements in human character.

  • I feel on the eve of some great crisis in my moral history, and yet I see nothing distinctly, except the utter worthlessness of a religion of mere form without a living principle.

  • It still remains when all sense content is thought away, and yet is not a mere form.

  • These belong to pure intuition, which exists a priori in the mind, as a mere form of sensibility, and without any real object of the senses or any sensation.

  • Among the modern Jews this usage exists, though now a mere form, there being no real purchase.

  • Among the Jews of the present day this usage exists, though it is now a mere form, there being no real purchase.

  • But indenting has gradually become a mere form, and is often neglected, while the writings or counterparts retain the name of indentures.

  • Defn: Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but few; great astonishment; great central; had arrived; mere animal; mere chance; mere child; mere coincidence; mere collection; mere force; mere form; mere girl; mere natural; mere negation; mere physical; mere question; mere trifle; mere variety; merely human; merely natural; merely nominal; political party; sometimes made; sugar beets; sweet smiles; three chapters