sethian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who venerated the Biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, depicted in their creation myths as a divine incarnation.
Example Sentences
- "But if these hippopotami are Sethian, how could Apophis, a professed follower of Seth, allow this to go on in his own city of Avaris?"
- "At any rate this shows that Sekhemib-Peribsen certainly did not pass into history as a Sethian schismatic or heretic."
- "Associated with Horus: in the Late Period the nome-sign is often written with a falcon (Horus) on the back of an oryx, which itself was a Sethian animal."