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Definition of Mawmets
1. mawmet [n] - See also: mawmet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawmets
Literary usage of Mawmets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church by John Foxe, John Cumming (1844)
"And they setten in these houses mawmets of stocks and stones, tofore them they
... A Lord, thou forbid- dest sometime to make such mawmets, ..."
2. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1843)
"... churche». tapers and torches before blinde mawmets that mowen not I seyen?
And hide thee that art our light and our lanterne toward heauen, ..."
3. The Catechism of Thomas Becon ...: With Other Pieces Written by Him the in by Thomas Becon, John Ayre (1844)
"... to have gifts and sacrifices offered unto them, &c., is it then seemly that
such honour should be given to dumb images, idols, and mawmets? ..."
4. Prayers and Other Pieces of Thomas Becon by Thomas Becon, John Ayre (1844)
"Heretofore we were taught to cast out of our temples the idols and mawmets image»
not wherewith many committed spiritual whoredom and ran an whoring, ..."
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