EISEGESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: eisegeses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("eisegesis" is a kind of...):

interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)

Domain category:

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)

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