2. Noun. (context: chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being. ¹
3. Noun. (gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleroma
1. fullness [n -S] - See also: fullness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleroma
Literary usage of Pleroma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"There will therefore be an absolute necessity that, within the pleroma, or within
the Father of whom they speak, they should conceive ' of some place, void, ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"These (matters), then, took place within the pleroma in this way. And the " Joint
Fruit of the pleroma " was projected, (that is,) Jesus, — for this is his ..."
3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"The full crew of a ship or ' strength ' of a regiment is a pleroma ; the soul
becomes a ' pleroma of virtues by means of those three excellent things, ..."
4. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"The pleroma, the fulness of the Godhead, expanded itself in still outspreading
circles, ... From the pleroma emanated all spiritual being, Dei'v of ' , . ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"... the pleroma, and this passed over from him into man.1 Thus was revealed in
the appearance of man, that prototype of the heavenly man from the pleroma ..."
6. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"232): " And thus the soul, becoming a pleroma of virtues by means of the three
best [blessings]—nature, ..."
7. The Theological and Literary Journal (1853)
"thus the bond that joins us in a real and living way, with the pleroma of life
in God, and it is easy to see how immeasurably needful it is that it should ..."
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