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perseverance of the saints

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
per-se-ver-ance of the -saints
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A doctrine, one of the Five Points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

perseverance of saints (alternative)

Questions

What does perseverance of the saints mean?
A doctrine, one of the Five Points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.

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