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English
Noun
plerophory (plural plerophories)
- Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion; the state of being fully persuaded
- a. 1935, George Jean Nathan, "As One Critic to Another", in Passing Judgments: The Theatre World of George Jean Nathan, page 29
- Massaging themselves into the plerophory that there must be something in the cocksure statements of the various movie executives
1938, Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar:"...my distrust and hatred of vehicles in motion is partly based on my plerophory that their apparent submission to control is illusory and that they may at their pleasure, and sooner or later will, act on whim."
1945, John Brazier Green, John Wesley and William Law, page 173:And this, if I do not mistake, the Apostle means by the plerophory or full assurance of faith.
1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 108:"... the advertising departments of all journals threatened falling revenues unless a note of sprightly plerophory were maintained".
1969, Rex Stout, Death of a Dude:"... I reject the plerophory that Mr. Greve is a murderer."