plene meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

plene

adv

UK /pliːn/

Etymology From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb).

Of abjad script With matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.

In the Mishnah (according to the Kaufmann Codex), this vowel is nearly consistently written plene (about 10,000 occurrences); most exceptions are in the tractate Avot.2013, Gregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

adj

Etymology From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb).

Obsolete Full, complete, whole.

Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did in plene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it;1671, Robert MacWard, The true non-conformist in answere to the modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland:

Of abjad script Written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

The Samaritan Pentateuch reflects the trend of the plene spellings in the post-Pentateuchal books rather than the defective spellings in the Torah in the Masoretic Text.2011, Emanuel Tov, Computer-Assisted Tools for Textual Criticism:

noun

Etymology From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb).

Of abjad script A word written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.2011, Christian D. Ginsburg, Jacob Ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible: Hebrew and English with Explanatory Notes:

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