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Text

noun

The words of something written. Synonym: textual matter. "They handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech" , "He wants to reconstruct the original text"

A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon.

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges. Synonyms: school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook. "The professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"

The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.).

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... he get next day in remembrance of his confirmation? he wondered. They had often talked about it at school, each one had his favourite text which he hoped to get. And would he get the gold watch early in the morning before going to church? Of course. Oh, how angry Kesselborn and Lehmann would be then—those wretches! He would hold it up before their eyes: there, look! ...

— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig

... and military Men, and take Notice, that whenever Pillage or shedding of Blood are to be justified or encouraged by a Sermon, or Men are to be exhorted to Battle, to the Sacking of a City or the Devastation of a Country, by a pathetick Discourse, the Text is always taken from the Old Testament; which is an inexhaustible Fund for Declamation on almost every Subject and every Occasion: And there is no worldly End, which the most ambitious Man, or the most cruel Tyrant can have to serve, but from some Part or other of that ...

— An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War • Bernard Mandeville

... for his text a few words in the 23rd verse of the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy. "He brought us out from thence, that He might bring us in." He said to ...

— The King's Daughters • Emily Sarah Holt

... of youth has been somewhat expanded, the personalities of those nearest to Napoleon have been in some cases more broadly sketched, new chapters have been added to the treatment of the Continental system, the Louisiana Purchase, and the St. Helena epoch. In all the text ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... science of our age is succeeding in catching from afar the vibrations of a sublime utterance. In the coffins of a large number of mummies have been discovered rolls of papyrus containing a sacred text which is called the Book of the Dead. Here is the translation of some fragments which appear to date from a very remote epoch. It is God who speaks: "I am the Most Holy, the Creator of all that replenishes the earth, and of the earth itself, the habitation of mortals. I am the ...

— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

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