Definition of Apocalypses

1. Proper noun. (plural of Apocalypse) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of apocalypse) ¹

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Definition of Apocalypses

1. apocalypse [n] - See also: apocalypse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apocalypses

apnoeae
apnoeal
apnoeas
apnoeic
apo
apo-
apoB 100
apoCII
apoaequorin
apoaequorins
apoapses
apoapsides
apoapsis
apoastron
apobiosis
apocalypses
apocalyptic
apocalyptical
apocalyptically
apocalypticism
apocalypticisms
apocalypticist
apocalypticists
apocalyptics
apocalyptism
apocalyptisms
apocalyptist
apocalyptists
apocarotenoid
apocarotenoids

Literary usage of Apocalypses

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

1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"There are also several Christian apocalypses which probably contain elements belonging ... The Christian apocalypses, like most of the Jewish apocalypses, ..."

2. The Revelation of John: A Historical Interpretation by Shirley Jackson Case (1919)
"OTHER JEWISH Apocalypses The writers of Daniel and Enoch had many successors who from time to time composed new apocalypses as new needs arose in the ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Pentateuchal criticism, Isaianic criticism, Homeric criticism, the study of Jewish and Christian apocalypses, the synoptic problem, the Johannine problem, ..."

4. The Apocalypse of John: Studies in Introduction, with a Critical and by Isbon Thaddeus Beckwith (1919)
"The preservation of the Jewish apocalypses which we now possess is entirely due to this use made of them by the Christians. Doubtless the great apocalypse, ..."

5. The Messiah Idea in Jewish History by Julius Hillel Greenstone (1906)
"... Insistence that Judaism is Law—The Apocalypses of Baruch and Ezra—The Supernatural Element emphasized—Baruch's Idea of the Resurrection—The Hadrianic ..."

6. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... of giddy heads will take upon them to define how many shall be saved, and who damned in a parish, where they shall sit in heaven, interpret Apocalypses ..."

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