Hesychast Definition

noun

(ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.

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Noun

Singular:
hesychast
Plural:
hesychasts

Origin of Hesychast

  • From Mediaeval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastēs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukhazein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hēsukhos, “quiet”).

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Hesychast Sentence Examples

  • In the Hesychast controversy he took the side of the monks of Athos, but refused to agree to the theory of the uncreated light.

  • The contemporary historians Cantacuzenus and Nicephorus Gregoras deal very copiously with this subject, taking the Hesychast and Barlaamite sides respectively.

  • It may be mentioned that in the time of Justinian the word hesychast was applied to monks in general simply as descriptive of the quiet and contemplative character of their pursuits.

  • Gregoras subsequently took an important part in the Hesychast controversy, in which he violently opposed Gregorius Palamas, the chief supporter of the sect.

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