cross-purpose

[ kraws-pur-puhs, kros- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

cross-purpose

First recorded in 1660–70

at cross-purposes, in a way that involves or produces mutual misunderstanding or frustration, usually unintentionally.

It seems someway unlike God to make each person a something all of cross-purpose.

I am not prone on my green couch, frayed, frazzled, bowed-down in spirit from a day of frightful stress and cross-purpose.

I do not excuse Sunna, but I say that wherever there is a cross purpose, there has likely never been a straight one.

If we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then?

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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