Westcottian

English

Etymology

Westcott +‎ -ian

Adjective

Westcottian (comparative more Westcottian, superlative most Westcottian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), English churchman, theologian, and Bishop of Durham.
    • 1907, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 409:
      Here is a running comment in the true Westcottian mode on one of the most crucial of St. Paul's Epistles. Here are also various appendices, some less Westcottian, some more so.
    • 2005, Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen, After the Victorians, page 71:
      He continued to promote the Westcottian vision of a Christian synthesis of East and West […]
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