Westcottian

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adjective

Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveWestcottian (comparative more Westcottian, superlative most Westcottian)

comparative more Westcottian · superlative most Westcottian

  1. Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.

    He continued to promote the Westcottian vision of a Christian synthesis of East and West […]

    2005, Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen, After the Victorians, page 71
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    Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so.

    1907, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 409

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