plerophory Now rare.
(plɪˈrɒfərɪ)
[ad. Gr. πληροϕορία (Heb. vi. 11, x. 22, etc.) fullness of assurance, f. *πληροϕόρος bringing satisfaction, f. πλήρης full, satisfied + -ϕόρος bearing; cf. πληροϕορεῖν to bring full measure, satisfy fully.]
Full assurance or certainty. (Common in 17th c. in theological use.)
| 1605 A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 90 Not one of many thousands attaines to that plerophorie or full perswasion. 1647 Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. iii. 13 The peace of a good conscience, and the plerophory of faith. 1745 Wesley Answ. Ch. 22 The other is, such a Plerophory or full Assurance that I am forgiven, and so clear a Perception, that Christ abideth in me; as utterly excludes all Doubt and Fear. 1893 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 275/2 To forbear, in some measure, that plerophory of cocksureness with which he habitually dogmatizes. |