Westcottian

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.

    "Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so."

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"Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so."

Etymology

From Westcott + -ian.

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