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commandments

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for commandments.

Editorial note

All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

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Quick take

Any of the Ten Commandments.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of commandments gathered in one view.

noun

Any of the Ten Commandments.

noun

(religion) A divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments.

noun

(law) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for commandments.

noun

Any of the Ten Commandments.

noun

(religion) A divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments.

noun

(law) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

noun

(archaic or humorous) Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.

Example sentences

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All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

2

This type of hypocrisy leads to redefining of rules the same way the Seven Commandments in Animal Farm evolved.

3

To rest on Saturday, to stone an adulteress, to be forced to marry your brother's widow have never been Christian commandments.

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If God made sin impossible then how can you reward people for following the commandments?

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Giving authoritarian commandments to anything only benefits - at most - half the equation.

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Look at the commandments and rules of behavior of the various religions.

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Resulting in 12 Commandments instead of 10, and base-12 numeral system?

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How do electric circuits correspond with commandments made in the BCs?

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The best part of this list is that with some tweaks, the commandments can pretty much apply to any field of personal and professional pursuit.

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> All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

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The manifesto was nearly a ten commandments of software development.

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Instead of strict commandments or laws, there are principles.

Quote examples

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That doesn't mean each subculture doesn't have standards and ideology that its members ascribe too (even when those are not 100% explicit in the "10 commandments" sense).

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The loopholes are different - God did not say "don't try to find loopholes, God instead made very specific commandments, with clear holes in them".

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I don't see "don't smoke or sell pot" anywhere in the Ten Commandments.

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It spends less than a page listing the "ten commandments", of which only 4 (killing, theft, adultery and false witnessing) are actually enforceable laws of social consequence.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use commandments in a sentence?

All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

What does commandments mean?

Any of the Ten Commandments.

What part of speech is commandments?

commandments is commonly used as noun.