parousian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).
Adjective
[edit]parousian (comparative more parousian, superlative most parousian)
- (Christianity) Relating to the second coming of Christ.
- 1908, Workman Herbert B, Persecution in the Early Church:
- We may dismiss at once the extremists of both types: those on the one hand whose laxity of conviction or conduct defended even attendance at the degrading public spectacles … and those who from extreme parousian standpoints made life of any sort practically impossible.