consubstantial
/ˌkɑnsəbˈstænʃəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.55 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with the Father"
- "I have no more made my booke, then my booke hath made me. A booke consubstantiall to his Author[…]."
- "But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other."
- "Thus, the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence."
Etymology
From Latin consubstāntiālis, from con- + substāntia (“substance”), translating Ancient Greek ὁμοούσιον (homooúsion).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: consubstāntiālis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɑnsəbˈstænʃəl/
- British English: /ˌkɒnsəbˈstanʃəl/
Inflected Forms
more consubstantial (comparative)
most consubstantial (superlative)