Need a definition for "Pean"

Whyndell Grizzard
Whyndell Grizzard Member Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

An author used the term in this paragraph- but the point escapes me because I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE WORD, AND MY DICTIONARIES ARE NO HELP:

"The pean of victory voiced in Rom. 8:1 is a masthead of the gospel. "So now no verdict of condemnation is there to those in Christ Jesus." No courtroom provides greater drama than the emotional outburst that follows the verdict "Not guilty!" The relief of tension, the flight of blame, the receding of imprisonment, the retreat of public shame, the avoidance of stigma, the vanishing of guilt--all such threats fade in an outburst of joy, relief and tears. "Not guilty" are the most welcome of words for the accused felon. Such are those who hear and respond to the gospel, the "good news" in Christ Jesus. "

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  • Mike W
    Mike W Member Posts: 277 ✭✭

      Mariam Webster notes that this is a varient spelling of the word paean.

    Definition of paean


    1. a joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph <unite their voices in a great paean to liberty — Edward Sackville-West>

    2. a work that praises or honors its subject :  encomium,  tribute <wrote a paean to the queen on her 50th birthday>

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,464 ✭✭✭✭

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Whyndell Grizzard
    Whyndell Grizzard Member Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/880441#Comment_880441

    Thanks Mike- I believe the publisher may have a misprint here, it is a 50 yr old volume and may have never been corrected. "Paean" makes sense in the context.

  • Gordon Jones
    Gordon Jones Member Posts: 743 ✭✭

    I believe that the original spelling was pæan. As the æsc or ash character wasn't available on typewriter keyboards it was in practice replaced either by ae or simply e, which is why Encyclopædia Britannica doesn't sell encyclopædia anymore but encyclopedia! :-)

  • Francis
    Francis Member Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭

    Whyndell Grizzard said:

    AND MY DICTIONARIES ARE NO HELP

    Although your question has already been answered, I just wanted to remind you that you can use wikipedia also from the Tools in Logos. If you had, you would have seen that "paen" redirects to "paean" and that there is an article on the later (which defines it of course).

    All the best.

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