Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fullness; abundance; plenitude: in gnosticism, the spiritual world, or world of light, including the body of eons.
- n. In botany, same as plerome.
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Etymologies
- From Late Latin pleroma, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma, "a filling up, fullness"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Most probably St. Paul's use of the terms pleroma, the æon of this world, the archon of the power of the air, in Ephesians and Colossians, was suggested by the abuse of these terms by the Gnostics.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“In favour, however, of the former view is the ordinary meaning of the word pleroma, the meaning of the phrase fulness of God, in other passages, the analogy of Scripture as exhibited in the parallel passages above quoted, and the simplicity of the interpretation, no paraphrase being necessary to bring out the sense.”
“The word pleroma (πλήρωμα), in the New Testament, means that which fills up; fulness, fulfilling, filling full.”
“Among other expressions he salutes the Church of the Trallians 'in the _pleroma_' -- an expression which could not escape the taint of heresy when once Valentinus had promulgated his system, of which the pleroma was the centre.”
“It is a "pleroma" in social life, a fulness of concord, a harmony of many parts.”
“Now that the body of our Lord was not transelemented or transnatured by the 'pleroma' indwelling, we are positively assured by Scripture.”
“If he find a dearth in this, if it seem to him a circumscription, he does not know Christ, as the 'pleroma', the fullness.”
“N.B. The distinctities in the 'pleroma' are the eternal ideas, the subsistential truths; each considered in itself, an infinite in the form of the finite; but all considered as one with the unity, the eternal”
“The word "pleroma" translated here as "fullness", has two meanings in Greek: one, an active meaning, describes something that "fills" or "completes"; for exam - ple, a ship's full load can be referred to as its pleroma.”
“But actually the god is an evil demiurge and I was sent from the pleroma to defeat him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pleroma’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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from our first lady of letters
verbiage gleaned from perusing joyce carol oates
abstergent, pleroma, atrabilious, uxorious, caesura, knout, dolabriform
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A Nuncheon of Random Palavery
Yet another "random palavery" list of words that catch my eye or attention for whatever reason. No specific theme here.
causeuse, charientism, cheiloproclitic, phony umbrage, marathon of phony..., colpsinquanonia, concilliabule, emunction, liripip, qualtagh, hemiumbrage, umbrage-lite and 139 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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drseatbelt's Words
bilious, centenarian, droll, palliative, cortege, stultify, polysemy, suffuse, lambent, timorous, aegis, modicum and 236 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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Definitions
Esoteric words for me
pleroma, syzygy, antanaclasis, Therapeutae, Essenes, arcane, germane, apposite, conurbation, sinecure, antiphonal, coenobite and 159 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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gnosticism
catharism, mandaeism, manichaeism, sethians, thomasines, valentinians, basilidians, ophites, cainites, carpocratians, borborites, paulicianism and 19 more...
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Old School Commentators
synecdoche, hyperbole, thresh, contrite, hendiadys, condescension, contrition, yieldedness, propitiation, chiliastic, synecdochically, proselyte and 65 more...
Tweets
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ValentineBonnaire In the visual for this word you are showing a Princess Flower? The pleroma is a concept like the music of the spheres is a concept? You might find illustrations from old illustrations of alchemy about the concept of pleroma. Carl Jung wrote about it as well. Like this one. http://www.elhazablaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/SEPTEM-SERMONES-AD-MORTUOS.jpg Feb 18, 2013
milosrdenstvi Sounds useful! Sep 10, 2009
hernesheir (n). The totality of what is considered to be devine.
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Sep 9, 2009