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agape2 /agˈə-pē/ noun (pl agˈapes or agˈapae /-pē/)- Selfless Christian love
- The love of God for man
- A feast in token and celebration of such love, modelled on that held by the early Christians at communion time, when contributions were made for the poor
ORIGIN: Gr agapē love Agapemone /-pēmˈ or -pemˈə-nē/ noun - A religious community of men and women whose ‘spiritual marriages' were in some cases not strictly spiritual, founded in 1849 at Spaxton, near Bridgwater
- Any similar community, esp with reference to its delinquencies
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