Definition of St. James

1. Noun. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament.

Exact synonyms: James, Saint James, Saint James The Apostle, St. James The Apostle
Category relationships: New Testament
Generic synonyms: Apostle, Saint

Lexicographical Neighbors of St. James

St. Elias Range
St. Elmo's fire
St. Elmo's fires
St. Eustatius
St. Francis
St. Francis River
St. George
St. George's
St. George's Cross
St. George's Day
St. Gregory I
St. Gregory of Nazianzen
St. Ignatius
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. James (current term)
St. James the Apostle
St. Jerome
St. John
St. John's
St. John Chrysostom
St. John River
St. John the Apostle
St. John the Baptist
St. Johns
St. Johns River
St. Joseph
St. Jude
St. Kitts
St. Kitts and Nevis

Literary usage of St. James

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"St. James passed his hand across his fice: he felt his blood had mounted there. ... asked St. James. Even as the apothecary spoke Ralph brought in From the ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The better ones are the Epistles of St. James and St. Jude, II Peter, II and III John; these, like Origen, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If the Epistle of St. James were composed shortly after the year 60, it might, ... This leads us to the well-known sentence in the Epistle of St. James ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If the Epistle of St. James were composed shortly after the year 60, it might, ... This leads us to the well-known sentence in the Epistle of St. James ..."

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