Meanings
plural patefactions
- archaicThe act of revealing, disclosing, or manifesting; revelation, opening or declaration.
Spirit of Manifestation or patefaction was like the gem of a wine is or the bud of a rase
1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC1 more example
All revelation is reduced to the patefaction of God in the series of His great redemptive acts, to the exclusion—entire or partial—of revelation by word, which is sometimes represented, indeed, as in the nature of the case impossible.
1896, Benjamin B. Warfield, “The Right of Systematic Theology”, in The Presbyterian and Reformed Review, page 422
Origin
- Latinpatefactio
- Englishpatefaction
From Latin patefactio, from patefacere (“to open”), from patere (“to lie open”) + facere (“to make”).
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