Sophian.
/ˈsɒfɪə/ 1. Wisdom, knowledge; spec. the Divine Wisdom. (Frequently personified.)
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun]
righteousnesseOE
snoterc950
witnessc950
wisdomOE
insightc1175
witc1175
smeighnessc1200
sleighta1300
witternessa1300
inwitc1305
wittiheadc1315
wisenessc1320
witterheda1325
wisehede1340
slyness1357
sapience1377
wisdomhood138.
prudencea1382
sapienta1400
sentencec1400
advice?a1439
sophyc1440
profunditya1500
wittiness1543
Minerva1601
depth1605
Sophia1649
visionariness1817
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience
sapiencec1386
omniscience1612
omnisciency1640
Sophia1649
all-knowingness1674
scientivity1677
omniscientness1727
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a king or ruler > for foreign king or ruler
Sophy1539
shah1566
sophi1598
padishah1612
pangeran1616
Sophia1649
Nizam1769
rajaship1784
Shahanshah1815
inkosi1835
1649 J. Ellistone in tr. J. Böhme Epist. Pref. sig. a1 This knowledge..this Garland, and Crown, of Virgin Sophia.
1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xi. xiv. 117 The fair and noble Sophia..which now at present standeth at the doore of your soule.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 91 The principal church, which was dedicated by the founder of Constantinople to saint Sophia, or the eternal wisdom.]
1840 H. H. Milman Hist. Christianity II. 124 The great mother Sophia, would at length be admitted into the Pleroma or intellectual sphere.
1865 tr. V. Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame ii. vii. 95 Hermetics, that sophia of all sophias.
2. Used attributively to designate the type of Jewish literature represented by the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, etc.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Hebrew scripture > [adjective] > Wisdom
Sophia1904
Sophian1904
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Apocrypha > [adjective] > Wisdom
Sophia1904
Sophian1904
1904 Expositor Aug. 117 The influence of the Sophia-literature in S. Luke's Gospel is distinctly marked.
Derivatives
ˈSophian adj.1
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Hebrew scripture > [adjective] > Wisdom
Sophia1904
Sophian1904
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Apocrypha > [adjective] > Wisdom
Sophia1904
Sophian1904
1904 Expositor Aug. 117 Undoubtedly a Sophian word from the Apocrypha.
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