Meanings
comparative more parousian · superlative most parousian
- ChristianityRelating to the second coming of Christ.
We may dismiss at once the extremists of both types: those on the one hand whose laxity of conviction or conduct defended even attendance at the degrading public spectacles … and those who from extreme parousian standpoints made life of any sort practically impossible.
1908, Workman Herbert B, Persecution in the Early Church
Origin
- Ancient Greekπαρουσία“presence”
- Englishparousian
From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).
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