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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.)
1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 90 Not one of many thousands attaines to that plerophorie or full perswasion. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. iii. 13 The peace of a good conscience, and the plerophory of faith. 1745Wesley 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. 1893F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 275/2 To forbear, in some measure, that plerophory of cocksureness with which he habitually dogmatizes. |