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gnosis

1

[ noh-sis ]

noun

  1. knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.


-gnosis

2
  1. a combining form meaning “knowledge,” used in the formation of compound words:

    prognosis.

-gnosis

1

combining form

  1. (esp in medicine) recognition or knowledge

    prognosis

    diagnosis

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


gnosis

2

/ ˈnəʊsɪs /

noun

  1. supposedly revealed knowledge of various spiritual truths, esp that said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • -gnostic, combining_form:in_adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gnosis1

1695–1705; < New Latin < Greek gnṓsis a seeking to know, equivalent to gnō-, base of gignṓskein know 1 + -sis -sis

Origin of gnosis2

< Latin -gnōsis < Greek; gnosis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gnosis1

via Latin from Greek: gnosis

Origin of gnosis2

C18: ultimately from Greek: knowledge, from gignōskein to know
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Example Sentences

Gnosis was never really “founded,” per se, but forged over time among a group of people who became friends talking over code.

Gnosis now understands how a large website such as Gawker functions.

Nobody else should feel too threatened that Gnosis is out digging around.

“We try to keep our ears open,” said one of the Gnosis members.

Another one of the hackers shared some of the backgrounds of Gnosis group members.

From Gnossus, whence the Greeks drew all their laws and science, came probably the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge.

He evidently feels in a position to give his gnosis with some claim to a deferential hearing.

The Gnosis of which they profess themselves adherents is a personification, the on and mediator “knowledge of life” (see below).

The Gnosis is formally a philosophy of revelation, that is a Scripture theology,700 and materially a cosmological speculation.

This also applies to Origen's Christian Gnosis or scientific dogmatic, which is simply the metaphysics of the age.

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