Diphysite

Diphysite: Diphysite /difˈi-zīt or -sīt/ (also without cap)

noun

A believer in the existence of two natures in Christ, a divine and a human, opp to Monophysite (also Dyophˈysite, or less correctly Diophˈysite)

ORIGIN: Gr di- double, and physis nature

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Diphˈysitism /-it-izm/ noun

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diphysite, n. (a.) Theol.
(ˈdɪfɪsaɪt)

[f. Gr. δι-, δίς twice, doubly + ϕύσις nature + -ite.]

One who held the doctrine (ˈdiphysiˌtism), of two distinct natures in Christ, a divine and a human, as opposed to the monophysite doctrine: see Dyophysite.

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