Meaning of metanoia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fundamental change of mind.
   countable, uncountable
2. A spiritual or religious conversion.
   countable, uncountable
3. A fundamental change in the human personality.
   countable, uncountable
4. A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have⟳ advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change⟳ of mind⟳ of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.”

“Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense⟳ in which metanoia is the most radical form⟳ of poiesis.”

“There is therefore enthusiasm no less than resignation in an enlightened metanoia. You give⟳ up everything in the form⟳ of claims; you receive⟳ everything back in the form⟳ of a divine presence.”

“Ecstatic seizures are rare—they only occur⟳ in something like⟳ 1 or 2 percent of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. But the last⟳ half century has seen an enormous increase⟳ in the prevalence of other states sometimes permeated by religious joy and awe, "heavenly" visions and voices, and, not infrequently, religious conversion or metanoia.”

“Two months after Obama’s autocue mishap, his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden raised a laugh⟳ when he used metanoia in his speech to the Democratic convention: “You know⟳, folks, that’s the America that George Bush has left us. And that’s the America we’ll continue⟳ to get⟳ if George – excuse⟳ me, if John McCain is elected president of the United States of America. Freudian slip⟳. Freudian slip⟳.””

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