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kenotic

kenotic adjective: pertaining to kenosis.

Adjective

kenotic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to kenosis
    • Linked to the kenotic concept of innocence and denial of self-esteem was the new popularity which from very early on an old genre of Eastern saint enjoyed in the Christianity of Kievan Rus’, and which has endured into modern Russian Orthodoxy: the Holy Fool.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 509

Questions about kenotic

What does kenotic mean?
Kenotic means pertaining to kenosis.
What part of speech is kenotic?
Kenotic is an adjective.

Words near kenotic in the dictionary

  1. Kenosha
  2. Kenosha County
  3. kenosis
  4. kenotheme
  5. kenothemes
  6. kenotic
  7. kenoticism
  8. kenoticist
  9. kenoticists
  10. kenotism
  11. kenotist

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