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cage stages

cage stages is the plural of cage stage.

Meaning of cage stage

Noun

cage stage (plural cage stages)

  1. (humorous) A period of religious zeal following a religious conversion, often perceived as arrogant.
    • But after God has initially brought believers into an understanding of the preciousness of sovereign election, they frequently enter what a friend of mine called the “cage” stage—the time when the newly-convinced “Calvinist” ought to be locked into a cage and not let out until he stabilizes, or the...2001, Douglas Wilson, “A Deeper Right”, in Mother Kirk: Essays on Church Life, →ISBN, page 88

Questions about cage stages

What is cage stages the plural of?
Cage stages is the plural of cage stage.

Words near cage stages in the dictionary

  1. cage home
  2. cage homes
  3. cage match
  4. cage matches
  5. cage stage
  6. cage stages
  7. cage-free
  8. cageable
  9. Cagean
  10. cagebelle
  11. cagebelles

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