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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A Christian belief which holds that God the Father and God the Son are one and the same, the latter often being termed Patripassianism in that it implies God the Father personally suffered on the Cross. uncountable

Etymology

From Sabellian + -ism, after Sabellius.

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