docetism
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editEtymology
editFrom Latin Docetae + -ism, from Ancient Greek δοκηταί (dokētaí, “phantasmists”), coined 197–203 CE by Serapion of Antioch, from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem”), δόκησις (dókēsis, “apparition, phantom”). Related to latter component of synecdoche.
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editdocetism (countable and uncountable, plural docetisms)
- (Christianity) The doctrine of the Docetes, that Jesus only appeared to have a physical body and was ultimately of celestial substance.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 124:
- His Passion and Resurrection in history were therefore not fleshly events, even if they seemed so; they were heavenly play-acting (the doctrine known as Docetism, from the Greek verb dokein, ‘to seem’).
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editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French docétisme.
Noun
editdocetism n (uncountable)
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edit declension of docetism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) docetism | docetismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) docetism | docetismului |
vocative | docetismule |
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