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agape¹ Definition

agape (ə gāp′)

adverb, adjective

  1. with or as with the mouth wide open, in surprise, wonder, etc.; gaping
  2. wide open

Etymology: a- + gape

agape² Definition

aga·pe (ag′ə pē′, ä′gə pā′; ə gä′pā′, ä gä′-)

noun

  1. a meal that early Christians ate together
  2. Christian Theol.
    1. God's love for humanity
    2. spontaneous, altruistic love

Etymology: LL(Ec) < LGr agapē < Gr agapan, to greet with affection, love

agape Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: When the shells are thus exposed and slightly agape, the stabbing method of opening the shell is more successful.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • stare: Most everyone else on the planet will probably just stare, mouth agape, at what they are seeing.

Modifies a noun

  • love: C: Love the World My final thought about showing agape love in action is to love the world.
  • meal: Can someone draw me a word-picture of the agape meals in the Early Church that coincides with our current practices wrt childen?
  • tile: Agape Tile has been handling Mactan's US sales for nearly a year.
  • standard: To explore the ways in which God s agape standard can be applied would need another article.

Used with adjective complement

  • stand: Now, for some space the revelers stood agape, unable to understand all that had been done in such haste.