Crossword-Solution: PURPOSES 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PURPOSES (5)

For Spirits when they please Can either Sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their Essence pure, Not ti’d or manacl’d with joynt or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condens’t, bright or obscure, Can execute their aerie purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfill.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
THE MALTHOUSE—THE CHAT—NEWS Warren’s Malthouse was inclosed by an old wall inwrapped with ivy, and though not much of the exterior was visible at this hour, the character and purposes of the building were clearly enough shown by its outline upon the sky.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The remainder may perhaps be applied to purposes equally valuable hereafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to so pious a task.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The ACM's stated purposes are: To advance the sciences and arts of information processing; To promote the free interchange of information about the sciences and arts of information processing both among specialists and among the public; To develop and maintain the integrity and competence of individuals engaged in the practices of the sciences and arts of information processing.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
There is a tendency to utilise underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilisation; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with PURPOSES (3)

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching pur…
John Piper A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and whi…
John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy
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