"apophatic" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 488",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 123",
          "text": "Augustine had absorbed the underlying spirit of Greek apophatic theology, but the West did not develop a fully fledged spirituality of silence until the ninth century, when the writings of an unknown Greek author were translated into Latin and achieved near-canonical status in Europe.",
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        "(theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions."
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          "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
          "word": "apophatisch"
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          "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
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          "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
          "word": "apofático"
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
          "word": "apofatički"
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          "ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC",
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        "(by extension) That passively defines a thing by describing what it is not characteristic of."
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        "(theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions."
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      "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
      "word": "apophatisch"
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      "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
      "word": "apofático"
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      "sense": "pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions",
      "word": "apofatički"
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