hypostasis
hypostases
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pluralof hypostasis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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At the Council of Constantinople, 56 years later, church fathers responded to heresy by defining the divinity of the Holy Spirit and proclaiming that the three "persons," or hypostases, were coequal manifestations of one God.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the divine persons are named supposita or "hypostases," but not as if there really existed any real "supposition" or "subjection."
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
Objection 1: It would seem that the hypostases remain if the properties or relations are mentally abstracted from the persons.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
This contemplation has several degrees, so to speak, of intensity, degrees which Plotinus termed hypostases.
From Initiation into Philosophy by Émile Faguet
Probably we should regard them as differentiated hypostases.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
