bardaisanite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A follower of Bardaisan; Bardesanist.
adj
Pertaining to Bardaisan or his teachings.
Example Sentences
- "Because of this condemnation of their ideas, he postulated that "the Bardaisanites did not accept this Epistle in their Apostolos", a statement not without possible significance for discussions of the formation of the Pauline canon in the early Syriac church."
- "But the pro-sexuality and pro-reproduction attitudes of the Bardaisanites, as well as their emphasis on human free will and the importance of living one's life in conscious conformity to the commandments of God, permit the possibility that infant baptism was practiced among them."
- "Differently from Adamantius, Marinus, who is presented as a Bardaisanite, in the Dialogue defends a view that in Methodius' De Resurrectione is argued for by Aglaophon, who denies the resurrection of the body."
- "Ephraem, who was engaged in a fierce warfare with the Bardaisanite heretics, probably had not the ability and certainly had no desire to distinguish in the mass of heretical psalms and hymns the compositions of Bardaisan from those of his successors, and so ascribes them all indiscriminately to him."
- "Not being gnostic in the strict sense, the Bardaisanite doctrine flavors a kindred atmosphere."
- "Could it be possible that Ephrem took over any of the existing Bardaisanite lyrics as well, reworking them for his own purposes?"
Etymology
From Bardaisan + -ite.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: Bardaisan