Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In theology: Substantial or personal existence.
  • noun Possession of personality not independently but by union with a person: sometimes used as a name descriptive of the relation of the human nature of Christ to the person of God the Son.

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  • noun Something which subsists in another personality or partakes of another hypostasis.

Etymologies

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From ecclesiastical Latin enhypostasia, from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, "in") + ὑπόστασις (hupostasis, "substance, existence, essence"), from ὑπό (hupo-, "under, below") + στάσις (stasis, "standing").

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