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- noun (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology
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Examples
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"We have to start training the coloureds in theia oct our people and to ensure we are not going to end up under the oppression of the black-dominated armed force."
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This theia phusis, this "divine nature," is not the nature of God, whereof in our own persons we are not subjectively partakers; and yet a nature it is which is a principle of operation, and that divine or spiritual, -- namely, an habitual holy principle, wrought in us by God, and bearing his image.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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That is somewhere called kainē ktisis, the “new creature,” [199] but nowhere theia phusis, the “divine nature.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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That phusis theia should be only a gracious habit, quality, or disposition of soul in us, I cannot easily receive.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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S. Jean Chrysostome (Greek and French, Paris, 1907); i He theia leitourgia, periechousa ton esperinon, k.t.l. (Athens, 1894); CHARON,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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-- He theia leitourgia tou hagiou apostolou kai euaggelistou Markou mathetou tou hagiou Petrou (Paris, 1583), edited by JOHN A S. ANDREA (de Saint-Andrée).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Ioudaia kata panta dikaios kai peplērōmenos theia sophia, philanthrōpōs edidaxen hēmas tis ho tōn holōn theos kai ti telos aretēs epi semnēn politeian harmozon pros tas tōn anthrōpōn psuchas; hos dia tou pathein epausen tas archas tōn hamartiōn: [1331] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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The father's sister is called 'amita,' the mother's 'matertera'; both go in Greek by the name 'theia,' or, with some, 'tithis.'
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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Hosa he theia graphe legei, tou Pneumatos eisi tou Hagiou phonai.
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* Hosa he theia graphe legei, tou Pneumatos eisi tou Hagiou phonai:
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