passibility

American  

[pas-uh-bil-i-tee] / ˌpæs əˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

1. the quality of being passible; ability to feel and to suffer.

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Other Word Forms

• impassibility noun

Example Sentences

With the growing sensitiveness of the social consciousness, the problem of suffering and of sin presses increasingly, and itself almost compels the assertion of the passibility of God.

From Project Gutenberg

Fairbairn, A. M., his The Place of Christ in Modern Theology, mentioned, 110; on the Christian consciousness, 112;referred to, 119, 196, 215, 234;on sense of sin, 143;on Christ as transcendent, 189;on passibility of God, 221;on annihilation, 239.

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"See now, cousin," cried the talkative Barbara, turning towards him, "as I told you, our Sam-Rocious, as the old gentleman called him, a short time ago, is again seized with a vertigo, a real vagabond, as they call such deserters; who asks here in the village after such and such an one, after a coach and strange travellers, and immediately our dealer in herbs there brings him to our house, because he has something to cure, which is once for all his greatest passibility."

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Unwillingness to attribute passibility to God, coupled with the desire to remain in some sort trinitarians, forced many of the monophysites into the Sabellian position.

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This belief, firmly held in all that it involves, would have kept them from attributing passibility to the Godhead, and ultimately have neutralised the errors of their Christology.

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