Paraclete

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Par·a·clete

(păr′ə-klēt′)

The Holy Spirit.

[Middle English Paraclit, from Old French Paraclet, from Latin Paraclētus, from Greek Paraklētos, from parakalein, to invoke : para-, to the side of; see para-¹ + kalein, klē-, to call; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]

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paraclete

(ˈpærəˌkliːt)

rare a mediator or advocate

Paraclete

(ˈpærəˌkliːt)

(Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity the Holy Ghost as comforter or advocate

[C15: via Old French from Church Latin Paraclētus, from Late Greek Paraklētos advocate, from Greek parakalein to summon as a helper, from para-¹ + kalein to call]

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par•a•clete

(ˈpær əˌklit)

n.

1. an advocate or intercessor.

2. (cap.) the Holy Spirit.

[1400–50; late Middle English paraclit < Medieval Latin Paraclītus, Medieval Latin, Late Latin Paraclētus < Late Greek Paráklētos comforter, literally, (person) called in (to help), verbal adj. of parakaleîn=para- para-¹ + kaleîn to call]

Paraclete

the Holy Spirit, considered as comforter, intercessor, or advocate.

Paraclete

[ˈpærəkliːt] N the Paraclete → el Paráclito

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Gildas de Ruys, at that time, and when he heard of her homeless condition a sentiment of pity was aroused in his breast (it is a wonder the unfamiliar emotion did not blow his head off,) and he placed her and her troop in the little oratory of the Paraclete, a religious establishment which he had founded.

They removed his body to the Paraclete afterward, and when Heloise died, twenty years later, they buried her with him, in accordance with her last wish.

I have not a word to say against the misused, faithful girl, and would not withhold from her grave a single one of those simple tributes which blighted youths and maidens offer to her memory, but I am sorry enough that I have not time and opportunity to write four or five volumes of my opinion of her friend the founder of the Parachute, or the Paraclete, or whatever it was.

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