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Diophysite

Diophysite is the alternative form of Dyophysite.

Meaning of Dyophysite

Noun

Dyophysite (plural Dyophysites)

  1. Someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.
    • Monasteries among the Dyophysites were strengthened through the military success of the Sassanian Shah Khusrau II in areas of the Byzantine Empire along the eastern Mediterranean.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 247

Forms of Diophysite

pluralDiophysites

Questions about Diophysite

What is Diophysite the alternative form of?
Diophysite is the alternative form of Dyophysite.

Words near Diophysite in the dictionary

  1. diophantine
  2. Diophantine equation
  3. Diophantine equations
  4. diophantine geometry
  5. Diophantus
  6. Diophysite
  7. Diophysites
  8. Diophysitism
  9. Diops
  10. diopsid
  11. diopside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Diophysite (page history and authors); Dyophysite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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