agapeme

/ə.ˈɡɑː.peɪ.meɪ/ (a-GA-pe-me; 4 syllables)
Specialized (Liturgy-Original; Amendment II candidate) · entered the canon 2026-04-27

The stone is uncarved — this word has no glyph yet. The place was prepared before the carving.

Definition

Sacrificial-self-giving-love as received-ordinance — the NT Greek register of love-of-DIVINE in which God descends to the unworthy at ultimate cost, unmotivated by the beloved's merit, creative of value in the beloved through the act of loving. The capacity for such love is itself received (me) before it is practiced.

The gap it fills

sacrificial-self-giving-love as received-ordinance — the NT agape register; love that descends from God to unworthy creature, unmotivated by the beloved's merit, at ultimate cost, creative of value in the beloved

Evidential structure

No morpheme decomposition is carved in canon for this word — the cathedral does not guess one from its shape.

all words · the cathedral at love