"Patmosian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Victor Határ, The Right to Sanity: A Victor Hatar Reader, page 121",
          "text": "...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!)",
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          "ref": "2000, Richard Dietrich, The Final Solution, page 366",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018, Sanja Bahun, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious",
          "text": "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\".",
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        "A believer in Saint John's apocalyptic vision."
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          "ref": "1894, George Douglas, Discourses and Addresses, page 79",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "1964, The Hollins Critic - Volumes 1-7, page 11",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "2000, Richard Dietrich, The Final Solution, page 362",
          "text": "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).",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Mark Leach, Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts, page 2",
          "text": "I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.",
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        "From or similar to the Isle of Patmos."
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          "ref": "1890, Manford's Magazine - Volume 34, page 665",
          "text": "This was the Patmosian heaven, a scene of splendid felicity and pure beautification.",
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          "ref": "1995, Michael Grosso, The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time",
          "text": "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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          "text": "...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!)",
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          "ref": "1964, The Hollins Critic - Volumes 1-7, page 11",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "2000, Richard Dietrich, The Final Solution, page 362",
          "text": "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).",
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          "text": "I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.",
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