Usually means: Before the Council of Nicaea.
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  1. ante-Nicene: Merriam-Webster
  2. Ante-Nicene, ante-Nicene: Wordnik
  3. ante-Nicene: Wiktionary
  4. ante-Nicene: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. ante-nicene: Dictionary.com
  6. ante-Nicene: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ante-Nicene)

▸ adjective:  (Christianity, historical) Of or relating to those early Christians who lived before the council of Nicea in 325 AD.

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antenicene, Post-Nicene, Nicene, Niceno-Constantinopolitan, Nicaean, patristic, Chalcedonian, Nicandrian, Origenist, protoorthodox, more...

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Christianity in the ante-Nicene period, more...

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Similar:
antenicene, Post-Nicene, Nicene, Niceno-Constantinopolitan, Nicaean, patristic, Chalcedonian, Nicandrian, Origenist, protoorthodox, more...

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Christianity in the ante-Nicene period, more...



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