Augustine

Definitions

1. A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), a church father and a writer.
2. An Augustinian.

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Examples

“The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put⟳ it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest⟳ of the world outside our own⟳ country.”

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