neo-testamentary

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Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From neo- (prefix meaning ‘new’) +‎ testamentary (“pertaining to a testament or will”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”) + *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”), indicating a third party standing as a witness to two parties to a contract or dispute).

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neo-testamentary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the New Testament of the Bible.
    Synonym: New Testamental
    Coordinate terms: (rare) paleotestamentary, vetero-testamentary
    • 2018, Estella Ciobanu, “Commemorations of Christ’s Passion Body: Ostentatio Vulnerum, Redemptive Theology and Violence of Representation in the Post-Crucifixion Plays”, in Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama (The New Middle Ages), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, footnote 31, page 229:
      One of the revisionist Protestant strategies aimed to justify repudiation of Catholicism was the gendering of religious behaviour […]. At its simplest, yet most insidiously dangerous, it associated vetero-testamentary or pre-conversion characters with the old/Catholic religion and gendered them feminine or effeminate—unruly speech- and behaviour-wise, viz. overly emotional, even exhibitionist and ultimately anti-Christian. By contrast, positive neo-testamentary characters, Christian converts and generally reformed figures were deemed the true Christians/Protestants.

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