Word Meanings - APOCRYPHALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.

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• APOCRYPHA
  1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. Locke. 2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected
• APOCRYPHALNESS
  The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.
• APOCRYPHALIST
  One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.
• APOCRYPHALLY
  In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.
• APOCRYPHAL
  1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.