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Vigilantian

Vigilantian adjective: of or relating to Vigilantius (fl. c. 400), Christian presbyter who wrote a work, now lost, that opposed a number of common fifth-century practices, and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420).

Adjective

Vigilantian (comparative more Vigilantian, superlative most Vigilantian)

  1. (historical) Of or relating to Vigilantius (fl. c. 400), Christian presbyter who wrote a work, now lost, that opposed a number of common fifth-century practices, and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420).

Forms of Vigilantian

comparativemore Vigilantian
superlativemost Vigilantian

Questions about Vigilantian

What does Vigilantian mean?
Vigilantian means of or relating to Vigilantius (fl. c. 400), Christian presbyter who wrote a work, now lost, that opposed a number of common fifth-century practices, and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420).
What part of speech is Vigilantian?
Vigilantian is an adjective.

Words near Vigilantian in the dictionary

  1. vigilant
  2. vigilante
  3. vigilanteism
  4. vigilantelike
  5. vigilantes
  6. Vigilantian
  7. vigilantism
  8. vigilantisms
  9. vigilantist
  10. vigilantly
  11. vigilantness

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