Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An advocate, especially the Holy Spirit.
Etymologies
- From Old French paraclit, from Late Latin paraclet, from Latin paracletus ("advocate, defender, helper, protector, conforter"), from Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paraklētos, "called to help, helper"), from παρά (para, "beside") + καλέω (kaleō, "I call") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Strictly speaking the word paraclete means the defence counsel.”
“Moreover, it is stated lower down of this same martyr, that he was 'called the paraclete (or advocate) of the Christians, having the Paraclete in himself, the Spirit more abundantly than Zacharias.”
“And it is very observable, that this very word paraclete, though it be not a”
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
“P.S. For a definition of "paraclete" and lots of other New Testament vocabulary, click here.”
“For a definition of "paraclete" and lots of other New Testament vocabulary, click here.”
“He grants to good and bad alike, but justification, sanctification, continued intercession, and peace, He grants to His children alone. advocate -- Greek, "paraclete," the same term as is applied to the Holy”
“One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”.”
“After that came Eusebius of Cæsarea, who taught that the spirit paraclete is neither of Father nor Son.”
“The result of Socrates 'losing his way in thought and ending up stymied in Agathon's neighbor's porch is that Aristodemus, like a proper Socratic paraclete, arrives at Agathon's quite a bit before Socrates.”
“As when any hath sinned against the king, and hath appeased him by a paraclete [an advocate], and comes to implore his favour, he brings a gift.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paraclete’.
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Words whose last and third-to-last letters are both "e".
here, eke, were, complete, mete, replete, adhere, where, mere, sphere, austere, aesthete and 99 more...
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from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Pretentious Christianese
"Religious" words that make you sound like a pretentious jerk no matter how appropriate their application. Essentially any word you can use as an excuse not to actually have a real conversation. =)
christophany, hermeneutics, exegesis, exegete, theophany, epistle, bibliology, sola scriptura, exposition, apocalyptic, apocrypha, transubstantiation and 25 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
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Tweets
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fbharjo Greek for 'defense attorney' in modern parlance Apr 24, 2009
coverunner The Gnostic Society - Writings of Manichaean Writings
(http://www.gnosis.org/library/manis.htm) Apr 23, 2009
coverunner (paraclete) The prophet Mani around 150 AD around Iran/Iraq a gnostic Christian. The word not only as holy spirit, but a spirit twin (the Helper) on the parallel side of heaven. Apr 23, 2009
john From the 1940’s through the 1960’s, bishops and superiors of religious orders sent their problem priests to Father Fitzgerald to be healed. He founded the Servants of the Paraclete in 1947 (“paraclete�? means “Holy Spirit�?), and set up a retreat house in Jemez Springs, N.M.
The New York Times, Early Alarm for Church on Abusers in the Clergy, by Laurie Goodstein, April 2, 2009 Apr 3, 2009
chained_bear I once thought only Catholics used this word. Feb 1, 2007