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Petrine

Petrine \Pe"trine\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.

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Petrine may refer to:

  • Saint Peter the Apostle, in Christianity, as in a Petrine text
    • Petrine Cross
    • Petrine ministry, the office of the Pope
  • Peter the Great, in Russia, as in the Petrine Revolution
    • The post-Petrine era, the House of Romanov after Peter the Great, or the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Dynasty
  • Petrine Baroque, a style of architecture, particularly rich in Saint Petersburg
  • Petrine (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance), in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, one of the Four Riders of Daein and one of the game's more prominent adversaries

Usage examples of "petrine".

But I have no desire to get embroiled in the endless squabbling of Italian city-states, much less a feud with the Petrine branch of the church.

And they were half feared, as well as admired and respected, by the southern and Mediterranean folk who generally followed the Petrine currents in the Church.

He needed to maintain good relations with the Petrine clergy in Venice, whatever his misgivings concerning the laxity of their faith.

Until arriving in the continent, he had paid little attention to the endless doctrinal disputes between the Petrine and Pauline trends within the main body of the Church.

Perhaps Strega magics were not the fraud the Petrine church claimed they were, nor the unadulterated evil which the Paulines labeled them.

In times past, the Servants and Knights of the Holy Trinity had not held much sway in Venice, since the city was traditionally a stronghold of the Petrine creed.

The prestige of the Pauline orders, always low with the Petrine patriarch, was now as low as it could possibly get.

They were also famous for their solidly Petrine allegiance in religious matters and for being a hotbed of Metropolitanism.

What these lunatics propose amounts to creating a Petrine version of the Servants of the Holy Trinity.

There are mistresses of men from all factions, and courtesans who could entertain a man who is Montagnard tonight and one who is a Petrine legate tomorrow.

In the complex welter of Church institutions, the Hypatian Order was consideredcertainly by Paulinesthe most extreme of the organized Petrine currents.

So long as the Petrine church is willing to loll about in comfort, here in the soft and summery south, and allow the Paulines to wage the battle against the Evil One, the Paulines will continue to wax in strength.

Yet if your friend Katerina is correct, it was the Petrine who was actually there.

A paralysis has descended over us from the time of the Petrine reforms.

The Streltsy revolt and its aftermath marked a crossroads in Russian history, a period when the new dynamic Petrine state clashed with the forces of tradition.