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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Existence for eternity with another or others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coexistence from eternity with another eternal being.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Existence from
eternity equally with anothereternal being; equal eternity.
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Examples
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But Augustine was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon, and there is no doubt that he is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the interpretation achieved by the long struggle of the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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But this assertion evidently denied the coeternity of the three persons of the Trinity; it suggested a subordination or inequality among them, and indeed implied a time when the Trinity did not exist.
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But this assertion evidently denied the coeternity of the three persons of the Trinity; it suggested a subordination or inequality among them, and indeed implied a time when the Trinity did not exist.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846
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