Hesychast
English
Etymology
From Mediaeval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛsɪkæst/
Noun
Hesychast (plural Hesychasts)
- (ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.
Translations
a member of a school of quietist monks in 14th-century Greece and Byzantium
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