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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A winkle.

2. (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.

3. (n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.

4. (n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

5. (v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

6. (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

7. (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

WRINKLE

rin'-k'-l (qamaT, "to lay hold on"; rhutis, "a wrinkle"): In Job 16:8, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes, "Thou hast laid fast hold on me" (margin "shrivelled me up") for the King James Version "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles." In Ephesians 5:27, Paul's figurative reference to the church as a bride, "not having spot or wrinkle," is indicative of the perennial youth and attractiveness of the church.

Greek

4512. rhutis -- a wrinkle
... a wrinkle. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: rhutis Phonetic Spelling:
(hroo-tece') Short Definition: a wrinkle, spiritual defect Definition: a ...
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Library

The Church Will be Without Spot and Wrinkle after the Resurrection ...
... Augustin to his holy brethren and fellow-bishops Eutropius and Paulus. (35.) The
Church Will Be Without Spot and Wrinkle After the Resurrection. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/35 the church will be.htm

We Come Next in the Order of Belief to the Holy Church. We have ...
... This is that holy Church which is without spot or wrinkle. ... But those Churches
are not without spot or wrinkle of unfaithfulness. ...
/.../39 we come next in.htm

Pelagius' Reply to the Eighth Item of Accusation.
... "It has," says he, "been asserted by me,"but in such a sense that the Church is
by the laver cleansed from every spot and wrinkle, and in this purity the ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 28 pelagius reply to the.htm

The Eighth Item in the Accusation.
... Pelagius was charged with having said: "That the Church here is without spot or
wrinkle." It was on this point that the Donatists also were constantly at ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 27 xii the eighth item.htm

As to the Charge that they Bring against Us...
... in this world, as the Donatists themselves declared in our conference that they
were members of a Church which has already neither spot nor wrinkle, nor any ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /chapter 9 35 as.htm

And if they Would have Obeyed Him...
... to belong to that Church, which He so purifies by the washing of water, "that He
may present to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /chapter 3 4 and.htm

Of the Praise of the Saints.
... to be members of Christ's body, how will that body, that is, the Church, be even
in this time perfectly, as they think, without spot or wrinkle, if its members ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 17 vii of the praise.htm

How the Bishops Cleared Pelagius of those Charges.
... And that although the Church here on earth is not without spot or wrinkle, she is
yet both cleansed from every spot and wrinkle by the laver of regeneration ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 64 how the bishops cleared.htm

Whether Christ is the Head of all Men?
... the Ephesians (5:25,27): "Christ delivered Himself up for" the Church "that He might
present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ is the head 3.htm

I am Told, to Take Another Point, that one of his Followers ...
... Why should he knit his brow and draw in and wrinkle up his nostrils, and weigh out
his hollow words, and simulate among the common crowd a sanctity which his ...
/.../32 i am told to.htm

Thesaurus

Wrinkle (1 Occurrence)
... A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any
smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the ...
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Spot (42 Occurrences)
... Spilos is used in the figurative sense of a stain of sin in 2 Peter 3:14, and
similarly along with rhutis ("a wrinkle") in Ephesians 5:27. ...
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Unblemished (11 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 5:27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without
spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished. ...
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Gloriously (7 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without ...
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Wringing (1 Occurrence)

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Wither (30 Occurrences)
... away. 4. (vt) To cause to fade, and become dry. 5. (vt) To cause to shrink,
wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture. 6. (vt ...
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Wrinkles (1 Occurrence)

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Furrow (3 Occurrences)
... by, a plow. 2. (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal;
a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. 3. (n.) To ...
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Ridge (3 Occurrences)
... ridges. 7. (vt) To form into ridges with the plow, as land. 8. (vt) To
wrinkle. Multi-Version Concordance Ridge (3 Occurrences). ...
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Radiant (14 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without ...
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Bible Concordance

Wrinkle (1 Occurrence)

Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Subtopics

Wrinkle

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