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Patmosian
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English
thumb|St John the Divine on the Isle of Patmos, by Hieronymus Bosch
Etymology
From en Patmos ian, from the Isle of Patmos, where Saint John the Divine wrote the "Apocalypse" in a cave.
Noun
A person from the Isle of Patmos.
en 1999 The Right to Sanity: A Victor Hatar Reader Victor Határ 121 ...accept for real the fire until it reaches you and burn your fingers; don't give greater credence to me, than to the Patmosian until my predictions will gloom over you and in that awful instant will hit you what you should have had to begin with (however to start it is too late and to end it is far too early!)
en 2000 The Final Solution Richard Dietrich 366 0595132731 For it certainly seemed that more sacred than John to today's Patmosians were cash tourists on pagan holidays, who pretty much jammed up the little Cave of the Apocalypse as Jez and I entered.
A believer in Saint John's apocalyptic vision.
en 2018 Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious Sanja Bahun 0429916450 He may not be able to become a pagan or a Chaldean, but he can become—however partially and reluctantly—a Patmosian, since the Apocalypse of St. John of Patmos was indeed a significant part of the “creed” in which as a child he was "suckled".
Adjective
From or similar to the Isle of Patmos.
en 1894 Discourses and Addresses George Douglas 79 Lone isle of the Cyclades, with thy bleak Patmosian heights, canst thou not bring back thy wondrous exile, whose great prophetic soul was carried to heights of heavenly revelation, unreached by fellowman?
en 1964 The Hollins Critic - Volumes 1-7 11 Why and how did the Cacafile eat the Scroll and is this prefigured in the Patmosian LSD (Laus Semper Deo) vision of John the Apostle?
en 2000 The Final Solution Richard Dietrich 362 0595132731 It seemed that some relentless logic embodied in sight and sound was enveloping the entire Patmosian region (“as automatic as a psychosis or a theology,” I later put it in a postcard to Paul).
en 2011 Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts Mark Leach 2 1456504797 I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.
Pertaining to Saint John the Divine or his "Apocalypse".
en 1890 Manford's Magazine - Volume 34 665 This was the Patmosian heaven, a scene of splendid felicity and pure beautification.
en 1995 The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time Michael Grosso Not one Stealth bomber went down in the Persian Gulf War; the destruction rained on Baghdad was a Patmosian revelation of the dark side of human technology.
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