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protologies

protologies is the plural of protology.

Meaning of protology

Noun

protology (countable and uncountable, plural protologies)

  1. The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.
    • And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point.1975, Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology: A Concise Sacramentum Mundi, →ISBN, page 320
  2. A text or oral history giving the origins of a people.
    • Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies.1997, Jace Weaver, That the People Might Live, →ISBN

Questions about protologies

What is protologies the plural of?
Protologies is the plural of protology.

Words near protologies in the dictionary

  1. protoliths
  2. protoliturgical
  3. protolog
  4. protological
  5. protologically
  6. protologies
  7. protologism
  8. protologisms
  9. protologist
  10. protologistic
  11. protologists

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