hexameron
Pronunciations (2)
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/hɛkˈsæ.mə.rɔn/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/hɛkˈsæ.mə.rən/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
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More examples (1)
He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.
The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.
Word forms
hexameronsHexameronhexæmeronhexaëmeronhexaemeronhexahemeron