SLOUGH OFF • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Slough off

... spasmodic attempts on the part of the old heathenism to interpret its mythology symbolically and to reform its moral practice; just as the growing power of the gospel in the fifteenth century led the Roman Church to slough off some of its abuses and to tolerate among its adherents reformers before the Reformation; so in India the new learning from the West and the missionary proclamation of the gospel have brought about a state of religious ...

— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong