"earn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As the second-in-command, he earned great merit in defeating the Jurchens.
- The act of returning large amounts of booty back to the temples earned him religious merit.
- Somehow he would have to do the deed alone, but if he could achieve that it might earn him extra merit.
- Donors, it is thought, earn merit for their next life.
- Party officials are allowed to participate at Buddhist ceremonies and even to be ordained as monks to earn religious merit following the death of close relatives.
- Buddhist monks earn merit through mindfulness, meditation, chanting and other rituals.
- From time immemorial, persons wishing to earn merit have been offering animal sacrifice.
- Some 2,230 of the original 4,450 temples survive, a legacy of the Buddhist belief that to build a temple was to earn merit.
- This earned him sufficient merit to create similar cruceiros throughout the region, though none s as magnificent as the aforementioned opus.
- The paintings are made to earn religious merit both for the artist and the patron.
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