Definitions for Essene

Essene Es·sene

Spelling: [es-een, e-seen]
IPA: /ˈɛs in, ɛˈsin/

Essene is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Essene (eeenss).

Definitions for Essene

noun

  1. a member of a Palestinian sect, characterized by asceticism, celibacy, and joint holding of property, that flourished from the 2nd century b.c. to the 2nd century a.d.

Examples for Essene

I am Enoch the Essene, a holy one, a perfect keeper of the law.

Like the Essene, the Buddhist monk was not forced to remain for life.

In the Essene monasteries, as in the Buddhist, there was no life vow.

The twelve chosen were all Jews, probably of the Essene order.

But I know not, the Essene answered, that any man be dying in the brook.

There is a hint of this in Essene's account of Lassik war stories (1942, p. 91).

An Essene, but one that was seldom in the cenoby, more often to be met on the hills with his flocks.

If a man be dying the Essene, by his rule, must succour him, Paul said.

We have stated Christ may have been an Essene either by birth or by conversion.

The author says that all this is pure nihilism, and Essene communism.

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