Dustling
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
"Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether."
- 2 One formed from the dust; human being.
"Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?"
Example
More examples"Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether."
Etymology
From dust + -ling.
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