parusia

From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).

parusia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.
   • 1899, Robert Henry Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 362:

     The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]

   • 2008, Leszek Koczanowicz, Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-communist Poland, page 23:

     Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia. In both cases, however, the actual reality of the political institutions is presented as casual and subordinated to the true reality of essence.

   • 2024, Stanley E. Porter, Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, page 178:

     Regarding parusia, a function typifying the epistolary genre, he states, […]

• parousia

• historical present

• “parusia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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parusia f (plural parusie)

1. parousia

• spaurai