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- noun the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots)
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The sneak attack of Saakashvili and NATO on Ossetia may well be the precipitating event for eventual enosis or federation with Russia.
Coming From Georgia, Living in Russia « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus.
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Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus.
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Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey (to prevent Bulgaria from joining its Greek enemy) encouraged King
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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Trinitatis, and the inhabitatio Spiritus Sancti, and decide that this latter must be regarded as a union (unio, enosis) pertaining to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The union of the human and Divine nature happens not kat ousian nor kat energeian, but kat eudokian (at will), and indeed a eudokia hos en houio, which effects a enosis eis en prosopon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The contemplation in the present life is possible only to a few privileged souls, through a very special grace of God: it is the theosis, mystike enosis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Antiochene phraseology, and they respect the hypostatic union (enosis kath hypostasin) as well as the physike enosis as unorthodox and unscriptural.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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This ideal of enosis (from the modern Greek word enono I join together) has never died completely, but was never completely achieved.
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