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graven
[ grey-vuhn ]
adjective
- deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
- carved; sculptured:
a graven idol.
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Other Words From
- non·graven adjective
- un·graven adjective
- well-graven adjective
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Example Sentences
Even when Levon Helm was young, he had a voice that spoke to you with the authority of something graven in stone.
They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.
And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.
What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?
Of all these graven images existed, carved by men's hands,--some in the form of animals, like the winged bulls of Nineveh.
"Ay, with the cross graven on it," I answered; and my words checked a laugh that was on Evan's lips.
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