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Definition of Holy ghost
1. Noun. The third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost.
Definition of Holy ghost
1. Proper noun. (Christianity) One of the three distinct person Persons or hypostasis Hypostases of the Holy Trinity, the others being God the Father and God the Son (Jesus). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Ghost
Literary usage of Holy ghost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This was an abuse to which Pius II put an end by appropriating these prebends of
the holy ghost to a new order founded by him in 1459 under the name of Our ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"did, so do ye; and these were rebels against the holy ghost, who rebelled against
the prophets, rebelled against Christ, rebelled against the apostles, yea, ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"fore the holy ghost is not the Son. Again, he, whose coming depended upon the Son's
... But the coming of the holy ghost depended upon the Son's departing, ..."
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