consubstantialityn.
a. Identity of substance.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > identity of substance
consubstantiality1616
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Consubstantialitie, agreement in substance, the being of the same substance that another is of.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 81 Over-great Affinity, or Consubstantiality of the Nourishment, to the Thing nourished.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. iii. iv. 407 The Doctrine of the Soul's Consubstantiality with the Deity.
b. esp. of the three Persons of the Trinity.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [noun] > substance of > identity of
consubstantialitya1530
coessentiality1673
homousie1886
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxviiiv Here is no consubstancialite nor personage, whiche is in ye deite.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes viii. f. xlv The..Counsel at Nyce..dyd inuente the worde of Consubstantialitie, to expresse the olde trueth that Christ was..of one and the same substance with the father.
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 7 Homousion, which the Orthodox Fathers used, to shew against the Arrians the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
1773 J. Allen Assoc. against Established Church Indefensible 17 His Coequality, Coeternity and Consubstantiality with the Father and the holy Spirit.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 11 There is also a consensus in the Ante-Nicene Church for the doctrines of our Lord's Consubstantiality and Coeternity with the Father.
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