paleotestamentary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "There was a time when biblical religion (paleotestamentary and neotestamentary alike) was studied almost exclusively in terms of individual faith."
- "We have also consulted the sources themselves. For our purpose, these were the works of Josephus (the Jewish War, the Jewish Antiquities, and the Life), the New Testament, and certain sections of the palaeotestamentary literature—partly apocalyptic in nature—not included in the Canon."
- "PALAEO-TESTAMENTARY LITERATURE"
- "In the floor, funeral slabs by Tommaso Pecci (XIV cent.) and broken fragments of the original floor of the Duomo (notably the Age of man by [Antonio] Federighi, 1475, and the Paleotestamentary episodes by [Domenico] Beccafumi)."
- "Tomorrow, if I want to write this preface, I will set myself to running down all the paleo- and neo-testamentary courriers."
- "But I am headed rather toward the testament. Specifically, toward the stories of legacy or delegation on the inside, as en abyme, of what is called the neo- or the paleo-testamentary."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French