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Proscynesis vs Proskynesis - What's the difference?

proscynesis | proskynesis | Alternative forms |

Proscynesis is an alternative form of proskynesis.


As a noun proskynesis is

(historical) the act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient persia.

proscynesis

Not English

Proscynesis has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'proscynesis':

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proskynesis

English

Alternative forms

* proscynesis

Noun

  • (historical) The act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient Persia.
  • *1993 , AB Bosworth, Conquest and Empire , p. 285:
  • *:The participants in turn drank a toast, performed proskynesis and received a kiss from the king.
  • *1994 , DM Lewis & John Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History , vol. IV, p. 873:
  • *:Alexander, it seems, did attempt to impose proskynesis on both Greeks and Macedonians, and he aroused determined opposition, represented and articulated by Callisthenes of Olynthus.
  • *2008 , Eirene , vol 44, p. 195:
  • *:Perhaps most notably, in 66 CE, Nero accepted a formal proskynesis from the Armenian prince Tiridates, who paid a visit to him in Rome to be crowned king of Armenia.
  • (Eastern Orthodoxy) The level of veneration properly given to God's creations rather than to God himself.
  • *1975 , Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology , p. 684:
  • *:The Carolingian theologians rejected adoration of images but paid too little attention to the fine distinction between latria'', the adoration due to God alone, and ''proskynesis , the reverence paid to the image.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 448:
  • *:It was proskyn?sis which the worshipper at home or in church offered to an icon.