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de⋅e⋅sis
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-ses
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a representation in Byzantine art of Christ enthroned and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, often found on an iconostasis.
Origin:
< Gk
déēsis
entreaty, equiv. to
deē-,
var. s. of
déesthai
to beg +
-sis
-sis
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