Meaning of smiteful | Babel Free

Definitions

Inclined toward smiting.

Examples

“The authors of the Old Testament were people like⟳ us and struggled with their own⟳ human desires about the kind of God they would like⟳ to have⟳, a God, perhaps, whose power would be sympathetic to me and 'smiteful' to those unsympathetic to me.”

“Although there is no evidence that Taylor's is a vengeful, smiteful god, either.”

“And one hopes the tornado passes overhead and does not touch⟳ us; one prays and wonders why God would particularly care to spare⟳ us and hopes, again, that all His reasons for not doing so, though perhaps justified, will not matter⟳ and that He will not be as smiteful and as bloodthirsty as He ordinarily appears when one hears of His activity once a week on Sunday.”

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