coessentiality
English edit
Etymology edit
From coessential + -ity.
Noun edit
coessentiality (usually uncountable, plural coessentialities)
- Participation in the same essence.
- 1693, [Robert South], chapter VII, in Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book, Entituled A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity, &c. […], London: […] Randal Taylor, […], →OCLC, pages 172–173:
- […] Coeſſentiality, Sameneſs of Nature, and Sameneſs of Eſſence, […] do all of them, in the ſenſe of the Fathers, denote but one and the ſame Thing, viz. A Numerical Unity of the Divine Nature, […]
- The condition or quality of being coessential (“mutually essential for something else”).
Further reading edit
- “coessentiality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.