attraitn.
Theology.
The means by which God draws souls to Himself, vocation; inclination, attraction.
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1908 F. von Hügel Mystical Elem. Relig. I. iv. 131 (heading) Catherine and Tommasa Fiesca: their difference of character and attrait.
1911 F. von Hügel Let. 11 Jan. in M. de la Bedoyere Life Baron von Hügel (1951) ii. xi. 254 Souls of a mystical attrait..will also tend to find, in so far as they are dominated by their specific religious attrait, all the other non-religious contingencies and activities of man's life, a weariness and an irritation.
1936 E. Underhill Worship xiv. 309 A Quaker Meeting does not merely provide a suitable environment, within which individuals can follow in the silence their own devotional attrait.
1970 O. Chadwick Victorian Church II. iv. 182 He was not in such plentiful supply as to warrant stationing him in the country unless he had a special attrait in that direction.
1978 Church Times 8 Dec. 13/1 Other Western countries..have lost or ignored the deep attrait to simplicity which showed itself in such things as Georgian houses [etc.].
1984 Kairos No. 10. 8 To help others, they must be conversant with a diversity of methods [of prayer] and sensitive to diversity of attrait.
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