Definition of Metanoias

1. Noun. (plural of metanoia) ¹

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Definition of Metanoias

1. metanoia [n] - See also: metanoia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metanoias

metanephric tubule
metanephridium
metanephrine
metanephritic
metanephrogenic
metanephrogenic tissue
metanephroi
metanephros
metanephroses
metanetwork
metanetworks
metaneutrophil
metanil yellow
metanoete
metanoia
metanoias (current term)
metanopirone
metanota
metanotum
metantimonate
metantimonates
metantimonic
metanœa
metaobject
metaobjects
metaorder
metaorders
metapectic
metapectic acid
metapectin

Literary usage of Metanoias

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

1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1836)
"... and calling the Heads of the Clergy, the Archimandrites, and the Priests, two by two, made with them their metanoias to the Emperor and the Patriarchs. ..."

2. The Patriarch and the Tsar by William Palmer (1876)
"And the sacred synod said that the metanoias must be made according to the old ... But for what I said in the sacred synod respecting the metanoias, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Zonaras also commented upon the Canons of Dio- nysius of Alexandria, Basilides of Pentapolis, excerpts from the Peri metanoias of Peter of Alexandria, ..."

4. Baptism in Its Mode and Subjects by Alexander Carson (1860)
"The phrase baptisma metanoias," says he, " might mean either the corporeal baptism, connected with repentance, or the spiritual baptism, consisting of ..."

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