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Paraclete|ˈpærəkliːt|
Also 5 -clit, 6 -clet.
[a. F. paraclet (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. eccl. L. paraclētus (also paraclītus) Tertull., etc., a. Gr. παράκλητος advocate, intercessor, one called to one's aid, f. παρακαλεῖν to call in, call to one's aid. Although a passive verbal = L. ad-vocātus, παράκλητος was at an early date associated by the Greek Fathers with the Hellenistic sense of παρακαλεῖν to console, comfort, and the active agent-n. παρακλήτωρ encourager, comforter. Cf. the active sense acquired by advocate.
In Job xvi. 2, where the LXX has παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες, Aquila and Theodotion have παράκλητοι.]
1. A title of the Holy Spirit (repr. Gr. παράκλητος in John xiv. 16, 26, xv. 26, xvi. 7); properly ‘an advocate, one called in to one's assistance, an intercessor’, but often taken as = ‘comforter’ (see comforter 1 b). Also (rarely) repr. Gr. παράκλητος ‘advocate’ as applied to Christ (1 John ii. 1).
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3616 Ffor anothere Paraclit I shalle send ȝowe nedefulle. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) John xiv. 26 The Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. 1659Pearson Creed viii. (1662) 361 ‘If any man sin we have a Paraclete with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous’..saith S. John. a1700Dryden Veni, Creator Spiritus 8 O source of uncreated light, The Father's promised Paraclete! a1714Abp. Sharp Serm. (1738) V. 29 In the Te Deum, ‘also the Holy Ghost the Paraclete’: for that is the word in the original. 1843Neale Hymns for Sick (1863) 58 Consoler of our hearts, Blest Paraclete! 1884J. Parker Larger Ministry 21.
transf.1871Morley Crit. Misc., Carlyle Ser. i. 238 With him [Carlyle]..The victorious hero is the true Paraclete.
†2. gen. An advocate or intercessor. Obs.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. iii. xviii. B b v, Braggynge Winchester, the Popes paraclete in Englande, that is mayster of the Stewes at London. 1581N. Burne in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 126 Your paraclet Theodore Beze is constranit to deny this pairt of the scripture. 1701tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers (1702) 82 [Plato] has likewise used in one place, the term Paraclete, Intercessor, in speaking of the Reason. |