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docetisms

docetisms is the plural of docetism.

Meaning of docetism

Noun

docetism (countable and uncountable, plural docetisms)

  1. The belief that Jesus was fully divine and only appeared or pretended to be human and to suffer.
    • 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’).2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 124

Questions about docetisms

What is docetisms the plural of?
Docetisms is the plural of docetism.

Words near docetisms in the dictionary

  1. Docetae
  2. docetaxel
  3. docetic
  4. docetically
  5. docetism
  6. docetisms
  7. docetist
  8. docetistic
  9. docetists
  10. docetize
  11. docetized

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