hexameron
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From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).
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hexameron (plural hexamerons)
- (theology) The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
- 1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times[1], page 34:
- He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.
- (theology) The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
- (literature) A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.