a person who holds that there is only one nature in the person of Christ, which is primarily divine with human attributes
adjective
2.
of or relating to this belief
Derived forms
Monophysitic (ˌmɒnəʊfɪˈsɪtɪk)
adjective
Monophysitism (Moˈnophyˌsitism)
noun
Word origin
C17: via Church Latin from Late Greek, from mono- + phusis nature
Monophysite in American English
(moʊˈnɑfəˌsaɪt; məˈnɑfəˌsaɪt)
noun
an adherent of an originally 4th- and 5th-cent. theory asserting the existence of only one nature (divine or divine-human) in Christ and opposing the orthodox doctrine of the existence of two distinct natures (one wholly divine, the other wholly human) in the one person of Christ