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Webster 1913 Edition
Patefaction
Patˊe-fac′tion
,Noun.
[L.
patefactio
, fr. patefacere
to open; patere
to lie open + facere
to make.] The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
Jer. Taylor.
Definition 2024
patefaction
patefaction
English
Noun
patefaction (plural patefactions)
- The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
- 1896, Benjamin B. Warfield, The Right of Systematic Theology (page 422), in The Presbyterian and Reformed Review
- All revelation is reduced to the patefaction of God in the series of His great redemptive acts, to the exclusion—entire or partial—of revelation by word, which is sometimes represented, indeed, as in the nature of the case impossible.