Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Productive or expressive of quietude and serenity of mind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete soothing or calming

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hesychastic.

Examples

  • WFMU: Confronting paradigms of hegemonic conformity with a near hesychastic acuity.

    WFMU's Psychological Profile: The Dollar-Store Method 2005

  • WFMU: Confronting paradigms of hegemonic conformity with a near hesychastic acuity.

    WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

  • Then it was, to return to our thesis, that we had occasion to observe and feel in our own person the wretched pangs of one in despair facing the gentle -- shall we say hesychastic?

    Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

  • In other words, the celebrated Patriarch had all the marks of the '' traditional '' churchman, who followed the hesychastic tradition of the Kollyvades.

    orrologion 2009

  • Using the scholarly methods of the time (composing writings), they first of all revealed the continuity of hesychasm on the Holy Mountain Athos, and at the same time remained faithful not only to the theoretical formulation of the hesychastic-Palamite theology, but also to its practical applications, i.e. the whole spectrum of the ascetic experience.

    orrologion 2009

  • That is why the honor belongs to the Kollyvades, in that they preserved the Apostolico-patristic continuity in the Church: noetic prayer and hesychastic practice, asceticism and experience, those enduring and unalterable elements of the Orthodox identity.

    orrologion 2009

  • (hesychastic tradition) is preserved unaltered and the Orthodox Faith remains intact, serves to underline the importance of the Kollyvades Fathers of the Holy Mountain - and indeed St. Nikodemos who was surnamed Hagioritis, which means '' resident of the Holy Mountain

    orrologion 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.