ADIAPHORON

What ADIAPHORON Means

1. noun: a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures.“For all of the wild-eyed (and completely sectarian) assertions floating around the LCMS that ordination is a mere adiaphoron, that ‘laying on of hands’ does not mean ritual ordination but rather a democratic election, that ordination confers nothing - I have yet to ever read about anyone actually graduating seminary and taking a call to a congregation and choosing to forgo the rite of ordination.”
2. noun: (Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit.“Esteem (or reputation, fame, glory) was for Stoics an adiaphoron, and though it could be classed as prolegomenon with a certain ‘value’, it was only after Diogenes' time that they conceded that its ‘value’ was more than instrumental.”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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ADIAPHORON is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 D2 I1 A1 P3 H4 O1 R1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In ADIAPHORON

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