Meanings
- rhetoricuncountableA figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.
Regarding parusia, a function typifying the epistolary genre, he states, […]
2024, Stanley E. Porter, Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, page 1782 more examples
The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]
1899, Robert Henry Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 362Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia. In both cases, however, the actual reality of the political institutions is presented as casual and subordinated to the true reality of essence.
2008, Leszek Koczanowicz, Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-communist Poland, page 23
Origin
- Ancient Greekπαρουσία“presence”
- Englishparusia
From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).
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