Petrine

American  

[pee-trahyn, -trin] / ˈpi traɪn, -trɪn /

adjective

1. of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.

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Petrine British  

/ ˈpiːtraɪn /

adjective

1. New Testament of or relating to St Peter, his position of leadership, or the epistles, etc, attributed to him

2. RC Church of or relating to the supremacy in the Church that the pope is regarded as having inherited from St Peter

   the Petrine claims

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Other Word Forms

• post-Petrine
  adjective
• pre-Petrine
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Petrine

1840–50; < Late Latin Petr ( us ) Peter + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

While he could still wear the white cassock of the papacy, his fisherman’s ring must be destroyed, as Benedict’s was in 2013, and his insignia must remove “all symbols of his Petrine jurisdiction.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

I’ve also got a book called “Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s,” by Petrine Archer-Straw.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

When he resigned, Benedict cited his advanced age as the reason, saying he no longer had the strength for "an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry".

From BBC • May 2, 2013

John Paul, “who suffered and bent under the burden of the Petrine office as illness consumed him,” was “a powerful witness to the dignity of human life,” concedes Thomas McDonald.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2013

Now Petrine . . . she has to spend the whole day cleaning rooms and cooking dinner and washing up before she gets her wages.

From My Little Boy by Ewald, Carl