Christianity An adherent of the doctrine that in the person of Jesus there was but a single, divine nature. Coptic and Syrian Christians profess this doctrine.
ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin monophysta, from Late Greek monophusts : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek phusis, nature; see bheu- in Appendix I.
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s : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek phusis, nature; see bheu
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