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irreptions

  1. plural of irreption
    • 1847, Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ... ; with a Life of the Author ... by ... Reginald Heber ... ; Revised and Corrected by the Rev. Charles Page Eden ...: Life of our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, page 435:
      ...but by frequent and habitual mortification, and by continual watchfulness , and standing in readiness against all inadvertencies, we shall lessen the inclination, and account fewer sudden irreptions.