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Petrine
[ pee-trahyn, -trin ]
adjective
- of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
Petrine
/ ˈpiːtraɪn /
adjective
- New Testament of or relating to St Peter, his position of leadership, or the epistles, etc, attributed to him
- RC Church of or relating to the supremacy in the Church that the pope is regarded as having inherited from St Peter
the Petrine claims
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Other Words From
- post-Petrine adjective
- pre-Petrine adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The First Gospel, written about the time this church union movement was inaugurated, was adopted by the Petrine churches.
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This chapter was added to counteract the Johannine influence and exalt the Petrine teachings so dear to Rome.
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There is, for some reason or other, a distinct predominance of Petrine stories among these legends.
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Thus they are for the most part a species of the larger pseudo-Petrine genus.
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In them Paul exposes the fact that there were two parties in the early church, the Pauline and the Petrine.
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