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Agape

noun

(pl. agapae)

(Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind.

Selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature). Synonym: agape love.

A religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship. Synonym: love feast.

adjective

With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe. Synonym: gaping. "We stood there agape with wonder" , "With mouth agape"

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"Agape" Quotes from Famous Books

... one hand, fumbling at his buttons with the other, Watson marched into the customs house, while the populace waited agape; but he returned very soon to report that the building was untenanted. Captain Montgomery frowned. He had counted on the pomp and punctilio of a formal surrender—a spectacular bit of history that would fashion gallant words for a report. "Haul down the flag of Mexico," ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... or easily walked across the platform and faced his audience from a different direction. His voice was strong, deep, and rang clearly and earnestly. His audience sat on the front edge of their chairs, and listened to something new, with mouths half agape. A few times Carey turned from the speaker to face the audience. He agonized in his heart that it was a closed session, and that his wife was not there to hear, and that the ...

— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... independence—not, by the by, a feat whereof to be overproud when a whole country rose unanimously against a handful of troops. The movement, however, reacted powerfully upon the politics of Europe, which stood agape for change, and undoubtedly precipitated the great French Revolution. As soon as the States became an empire, their democratic and republican institutions at once attracted hosts of emigrants from the Old World, thus peopling the land with a ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... the other three stared at Rip agape. The audacity and danger of what he suggested was a little stunning. Since men had taken regularly to space no ship had made a direct landing on their home planet—all had passed through the quarantine on Luna. It was not only risky—it was so unheard ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... became a Montanist, he aspersed the morals of the church which he had so resolutely defended. "Sed majoris est Agape, quia per hanc adolescentes tui cum sororibus dormiunt, appendices scilicet gulae lascivia et luxuria." De Jejuniis c. 17. The 85th canon of the council of Illiberis provides against the scandals which too often polluted the vigils of the church, and disgraced ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

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