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Etymology

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From Coccejus +‎ -aan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌkɔ.keːˈjaːn/
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  • Hyphenation: coc‧ce‧jaan
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

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coccejaan m (plural coccejanen)

  1. (historical, Protestantism) A follower of Johannes Cocceius in the Reformed church during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, advocating a prefigurative, less literalist, federal theology associated with openness to non-scholastic philosophy (especially Cartesianism) and acceptance of heliocentrism.