Plotinism

[ploh-tahy-niz-uhm, ploht-n-iz-]

noun

1. the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.

Other Word Forms

• Plotinist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Plotinism¹

Plotin(us) + -ism

Example Sentences

From the confounding of Plotinism with Platonism, the Latitudinarian divines fell into the mistake of finding in the Greek philosophy many anticipations of the Christian Faith, which in fact were but its echoes.

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But Mr. Oxlee takes it as he finds it, and gravely ascribes this patch-work of corrupt Platonism or Plotinism, with Chaldean, Persian, and Judaic fables and fancies, to the Jewish Doctors, as an original, profound, and pious philosophy in its fountain-head!

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