{"query": "The Victory Is Already Past Tense", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd9e76f415e0", "title": "The Victory Is Already Past Tense", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\"\n\nJesus did not say the trouble would stop. He said He had already handled what the trouble could ultimately d"}, {"id": "card_src_word_past_perfect_tense", "title": "past perfect tense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "past perfect tense: (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past — syn: past perfect, pluperfect, pluperfect tense"}, {"id": "card_src_word_past_tense", "title": "past tense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "past tense: (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past — syn: past"}, {"id": "card_src_word_past_progressive_tense", "title": "past progressive tense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "past progressive tense: (noun) a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past — syn: past progressive"}, {"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. 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For it ex"}, {"id": "card_src_word_past", "title": "past", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "past: (noun) the time that has elapsed — syn: past times, yesteryear · (noun) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) · (noun) a verb tense that expres"}, {"id": "card_src_word_past_progressive", "title": "past progressive", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "past progressive: (noun) a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past — syn: past progressive tense"}, {"id": "card_n_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, \"there be three times, past, present, and to come\": yet perchance it might be properly said, \"there b"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"id": "card_n_9adf884ca117", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_020: See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abrid...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abridged to the length scarce of one day. But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_src_word_pluperfect", "title": "pluperfect", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "pluperfect: (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past — syn: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense · (adjective) more than perfect"}, {"id": "card_n_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_817442fc6789", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_019: Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to thee it is given to feel and to measure length of time. What wilt thou answer me? Are an hundred years, when present, a long"}, {"id": "card_n_2b5e67eb1e94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_021: The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same mann...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them; but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without r"}, {"id": "card_src_word_present_progressive_tense", "title": "present progressive tense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "present progressive tense: (noun) a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance — syn: present progressive"}, {"id": "card_n_cdd8c726c6f4", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_x: Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is all: that thy opinion do not beget in thy understanding anything contrary to either nature, or the proper constitution of "}, {"id": "card_src_word_pyrrhic_victory", "title": "pyrrhic victory", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "pyrrhic victory: (noun) a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses"}]}