Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology: Substantial or personal existence.
- noun Possession of personality not independently but by union with a person: sometimes used as a name descriptive of the relation of the human nature of Christ to the person of God the Son.
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- noun Something which
subsists in anotherpersonality orpartakes of anotherhypostasis .
Etymologies
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From ecclesiastical Latin enhypostasia, from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, "in") + ὑπόστασις (hupostasis, "substance, existence, essence"), from ὑπό (hupo-, "under, below") + στάσις (stasis, "standing").
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