| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Docetism |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Do·ce·tism |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -s  t z  m, ds-tzm |
| NOUN: | An opinion especially associated with the Gnostics that Jesus had no human body and only appeared to have died on the cross. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably from Late Greek Doktai, espousers of Docetism, from Greek dokein, to seem. See dek- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | Do·cetist —NOUN
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