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Diphysite

Diphysite 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 Diphysite

pluralDiphysites

Questions about Diphysite

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

Words near Diphysite in the dictionary

  1. diphyodont
  2. diphyodonts
  3. diphyodonty
  4. diphyozooid
  5. diphyozooids
  6. Diphysite
  7. Diphysites
  8. diphytanoyl
  9. dipicolinate
  10. dipicolinates
  11. dipicolinic acid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Diphysite (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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