Pelagius
Americannoun
noun
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He said Pelagius, a Greek scholar born about the year 350, had said individuals had freedom to be whatever they chose.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2021
Chief among those who found it both absurd and repulsive was a British-born monk, Pelagius.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
Pelagius and much of early Celtic Christianity “did not see a newborn as a sinner in need of forgiveness.”
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2015
The use of numbers began in the 6 century, when the second Pelagius took the suffix "junior."
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2013
In the year 590 Pelagius II. died of the plague that was raging in the city; whereupon the clergy and people unanimously chose Gregory as his successor.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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