monothelite

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monothelite - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Monothelite \Mo*noth"e*lite\, n. [Gr. ?; mo`nos alone, only + ?,
     ?, to will, be willing: cf. F. monoth['e]lite.] (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will
     as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite. --Gibbon.
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