Lexicographical Neighbors of Niobites
Literary usage of Niobites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames and Surnames, of Persons, Places and Things by Edward Latham (1904)
"The niobites gradually modified their views, and returned to the orthodox church.
Nitrate King, The. A surname given to Colonel John Thomas North (1844-96). ..."
2. A History of the Christian Councils: From the Original Documents by Karl Joseph von Hefele, William Robinson Clark, Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1883)
"The very opposition of the niobites to the ordinary Monophysites leaves us to
suppose that many Monophysites, since they distinguished the divine and the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"niobites.— A monophysite sect which was finally absorbed into the orthodox communion.
Its members held that the human nature of Christ was lost in its union ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and the niobites expressly denied all distinction between the Human and the
Divine Natures after the union. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Against him and his followers, called niobites, the Patriarch Danii- anus and
Peter of Antioch (Peter of Callinicus) came forward decidedly. ..."
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