What is this is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury called?
countenance — This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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