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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones..
The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]
Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia. In both cases, however, the actual reality of the political institutions is presented as casual and subordinated to the true reality of essence.
Regarding parusia, a function typifying the epistolary genre, he states, […]
Use parusia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Parusia means (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]
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