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know someone in the Biblical sense en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of know someone in the biblical sense.
    • A few days after yours truly met her and got to know her in the Biblical sense, so to speak—you follow me? 1960 January, Camilo José Cela, “Samson García, Traveling Photographer”, in Angel Flores, editor, Spanish Stories/Cuentos Españoles: A Bantam Dual-Language Book (Bantam Foreign Language), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published March 1979, →ISBN, page 253:
    • Don’t broaden your interest to include wanting to know her in the Biblical sense or she’s liable to blow your head off. 1977, John Jakes, “Dorn’s Daughter”, in The Warriors (The Kent Chronicles; 6), Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., book 3 (The Fire Road), page 264:
    • And forget about your aspiration to know her in the Biblical sense. 1977, Thomas Berger, chapter 15, in Who Is Teddy Villanova?, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 243:

Forms

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knows someone in the Biblical sense Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
known someone in the Biblical sense Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knowing someone in the Biblical sense Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knew someone in the Biblical sense Tense=Past lexicographic