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doves

noun as in pacifist

noun as in Holy Ghost

noun as in Holy Spirit

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Or one portraying the former KGB officer as a superhero surrounded by doves?

After the bells rang, 12 white doves were released from the steps of the 100-year-old church as people held hands and cried.

If you like it, read The Plague of Doves, then The Master Butchers Singing Club, because it is very different from the others.

Peter Beinart on what doves and hawks should take away from the conflict in Gaza.

Ambassador Karl Eikenberry spoke for all Americans, hawks and doves, in publicly slamming President Karzai last weekend.

Gwynne smiled as he recalled the heroines of poesy that had fed so many doves and garden birds.

And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Husky crows awake in the pine trees, and doves under the temple eaves.

About half-past three, the doves began to coo, and that made the monkey sit up and listen.

When Aurelian consulted the god of Palmyra (still in spite of Baltus), the god said that the doves fear the falcon.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to doves, such as: peacemaker, dove, peacenik, antiwar demonstrator, conscientious objector, and passive resister.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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