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psychopannychism

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The theological doctrine that at death the soul falls asleep, and does not awake till the resurrection of the body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Theol.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.

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  • noun theology The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.

Etymologies

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psycho- + Ancient Greek to spend all night long; see pan-.

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  • Also known as soul sleep. In Christian theology, this is a minority belief that the soul sleeps unconsciously between the death of the body and its resurrection on Judgment Day. (Wikipedia)

    May 27, 2008