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Hypostasis

noun

(pl. hypostases)

The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene. Synonym: epistasis.

The accumulation of blood in an organ.

Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united. Synonym: hypostasis of Christ.

(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality.

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"Hypostasis" Quotes from Famous Books

... a child of God,(920) while "renovation" means "putting off the old man"(921) and "putting on the new."(922) The "outpouring of the Holy Ghost" effected by Baptism is not, of course, an outpouring of the Hypostasis of the Third Person of the Trinity, but of created grace, which re-forms the sinner and makes him just.(923) This justifying grace must not be conceived as an actual grace, much less as a series of actual graces, for it is not given us merely ...

— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

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