neo-testamentary

English

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From neo- (prefix meaning ‘new’) +‎ testamentary (“pertaining to a testament or will”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”) + *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”), indicating a third party standing as a witness to two parties to a contract or dispute).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌniːəʊˌtɛstəˈmɛntəɹi/, /ˌniːəʊˌtɛstəˈmɛntɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnioʊˌtɛstəˈmɛntəɹi/, [-ɾə-]
• Rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
• Hyphenation: neo-te‧sta‧ment‧a‧ry

Adjective

neo-testamentary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the New Testament of the Bible.

   Synonym: New Testamental

   Coordinate terms: (rare) paleotestamentary, vetero-testamentary

   • 2018, Estella Ciobanu, “Commemorations of Christ’s Passion Body: Ostentatio Vulnerum, Redemptive Theology and Violence of Representation in the Post-Crucifixion Plays”, in Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama (The New Middle Ages), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, footnote 31, page 229:

     One of the revisionist Protestant strategies aimed to justify repudiation of Catholicism was the gendering of religious behaviour […]. At its simplest, yet most insidiously dangerous, it associated vetero-testamentary or pre-conversion characters with the old/Catholic religion and gendered them feminine or effeminate—unruly speech- and behaviour-wise, viz. overly emotional, even exhibitionist and ultimately anti-Christian. By contrast, positive neo-testamentary characters, Christian converts and generally reformed figures were deemed the true Christians/Protestants.

Alternative forms

• neotestamentary

Related terms

• intertestamental
• testament
• testamental
• testamentary
• testify

Translations

of or pertaining to the New Testament of the Bible

• Belarusian: новазапаве́тны (novazapavjétny)
• Czech: novozákonní (cs)
• Dutch: nieuwtestamentisch (nl)
• Finnish: uusitestamentillinen (fi), Uuden testamentin
• French: néotestamentaire (fr), novotestamentaire
• German: neutestamentlich (de)
• Italian: neotestamentario
• Polish: nowotestamentowy (pl), nowotestamentalny (pl), nowozakonny
• Russian: новозаве́тный (ru) (novozavétnyj)
• Slovak: novozákonný
• Spanish: neotestamentario (es)
• Swedish: nytestamentlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: новозаві́тний (novozavítnyj)

Further reading

• New Testament on Wikipedia.Wikipedia