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homoousians

homoousians is the plural of homoousian.

Meaning of homoousian

Noun

homoousian (plural homoousians)

  1. (historical) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene Creed and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father.
    • The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 257

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Questions about homoousians

What is homoousians the plural of?
Homoousians is the plural of homoousian.

Words near homoousians in the dictionary

  1. homooligomers
  2. homoorientin
  3. homoousia
  4. homoousian
  5. homoousianism
  6. homoousians
  7. homoousiast
  8. homoousiasts
  9. homoousion
  10. homoousious
  11. homopantothenic acid

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