patmosian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
adj
Pertaining to Saint John the Divine or his "Apocalypse".
Example Sentences
- "...accept for real the fire until it reaches you and burn your fingers; don't give greater credence to me, than to the Patmosian until my predictions will gloom over you and in that awful instant will hit you what you should have had to begin with (however to start it is too late and to end it is far too early!)"
- "For it certainly seemed that more sacred than John to today's Patmosians were cash tourists on pagan holidays, who pretty much jammed up the little Cave of the Apocalypse as Jez and I entered."
- "He may not be able to become a pagan or a Chaldean, but he can become—however partially and reluctantly—a Patmosian, since the Apocalypse of St. John of Patmos was indeed a significant part of the “creed” in which as a child he was "suckled"."
- "Lone isle of the Cyclades, with thy bleak Patmosian heights, canst thou not bring back thy wondrous exile, whose great prophetic soul was carried to heights of heavenly revelation, unreached by fellowman?"
- "Why and how did the Cacafile eat the Scroll and is this prefigured in the Patmosian LSD (Laus Semper Deo) vision of John the Apostle?"
- "It seemed that some relentless logic embodied in sight and sound was enveloping the entire Patmosian region (“as automatic as a psychosis or a theology,” I later put it in a postcard to Paul)."
Etymology
From Patmos + -ian, from the Isle of Patmos, where Saint John the Divine wrote the "Apocalypse" in a cave.