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English
Etymology
From Latin homoeus, from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “like, similar”), + -an.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Homoean (comparative more Homoean, superlative most Homoean)
- (theology) Pertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the homoousian and homoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 216:Maybe the Homoean formula of Ariminum would have succeeded in uniting the Church if Constantius had not unexpectedly died in his mid-forties in 361.
Noun
Homoean (plural Homoeans)
- Someone who subscribes to this belief.