Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, a believer in traducianism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A believer in traducianism.
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- noun One who believes that a child's
soul is inherited from its parents. - adjective Pertaining to the belief that one's soul is inherited from one's parents.
Etymologies
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From Late Latin traducianus, from tradux ("a shoot for propagation").
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Examples
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The fatal sophistry in the traducian account of the transmission of souls may be illustrated in the following manner.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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By his doctrine of the preëxistence of souls Origen excluded both the creation and traducian hypotheses of the origin of the soul.] [Footnote 777: Clement (see Strom.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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