Definition of Pleroma

1. Proper noun. (alternative capitalization of pleroma) ¹

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

pleonasts
pleonectic
pleonexia
pleonic
pleonosteosis
pleons
pleophony
pleopod
pleopoda
pleopods
pleoptics
pleoptophor
pleopus
plerocercoids
pleroma (current term)
pleromas
plerome
pleromes
plerophory
plesance
plesances
plesaunt
plesauntly
plesh
pleshes
plesimorphism
plesio-
plesiochronous
plesiomonas

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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