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Constantine

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1. Constantine - Noun

2. Constantine - Proper noun

Meaning

a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I

Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)

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Christianity may well have succeeded even if Constantine had not converted. Bart D. Ehrman

It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that. Alan Moore

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine. Matthew McGrory

Constantine was Nature's masterpiece, a triumph, as it were, of God's handiwork. One look at him would convince anyone that here was a descendant of the mythical Golden Age of the Greeks, so infinite was his charm. Anna Comnena

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books. Matt Ryan

As soon as my teaching duties permitted, I began to read Eusebius and soon made the remarkable discovery that none of the great names who had written books about Constantine had taken the precaution of reading the whole of Eusebius. Timothy Barnes (classicist)

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