presectarian
English
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[edit]presectarian (comparative more presectarian, superlative most presectarian)
- Prior to sects; prior to sectarianism.
- 1966 Jul, Martin R. P. McGuire, “Louis-Sebastien le Nain de Tillemont”, in The Catholic Historical Review, volume 52, number 2, page 190:
- He makes the important observation that Tillemont embodied the presectarian and pre-Jansenist traditions of Port-Royal (pp. 278-279).
- 1990, Seamus Deane, “Introduction,”, in Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 9:
- In Ireland, just at this time undergoing its literary revival, the Edenic moment was displaced back into the pre-Christian (and therefore presectarian) past and the model figures that emerged as types of Irish identity were, of necessity, legendary—like Cuchalain—and, by nature, susceptible to almost any reformulation.
- 2007, Bilhah Nitzan, “Traditional and Atypical Motifs in Penitential Prayers from Qumran,”, in Seeking the Favor of God: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, volume 2, Ed. Mark J Boda, Daniel K Falk, and Rodney Alan Werline, Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 208:
- Nevertheless, the suggestion of a presectarian origin for some of the prayers dealt with in this essay, either close to the ideology and reality of the Qumran community or reflecting a slightly dualistic atmosphere, is a vague solution.