plenary inspiration

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plenary inspiration - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inspiration \In`spi*ra"tion\, n. [F. inspiration, L. inspiratio.
     See Inspire.]
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     1. The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif.
        (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs,
        accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls
        and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of
        expiration.
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     2. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating
        influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of
        such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the
        inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
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              Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their
              death have good inspirations.         --Shak.
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     3. (Theol.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets,
        apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified
        to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a
        supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and
        communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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              All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. --2
                                                    Tim. iii. 16.
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              The age which we now live in is not an age of
              inspiration and impulses.             --Sharp.
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     Plenary inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration
        which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired
        message.
  
     Verbal inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which
        extends to the very words and forms of expression of the
        divine message.
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  Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, a. [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See
     Plenty.]
     Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license;
     plenary authority.
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           A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. --I.
                                                    Watts.
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     Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of
        temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all
        sins.
  
     Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.
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