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oecumenical

/ ˌiːkjʊˈmɛnɪkəl /

adjective

  1. a less common spelling of ecumenical
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The council of Pisa in 1409: it is not reverenced as an oecumenical one; it nevertheless, in deposing.

He attended the second oecumenical council held at Constantinople in 381, where he was received with grateful acclamations for his sufferings in defence of orthodoxy.

The capture of Plevna by the Russians brought about the fall of the “oecumenical” ministry, and Koumoundouros and Delyannes, who succeeded to power, ordered the invasion of Thessaly.

About 1103 he wrote or inspired a series of tracts which defended the king’s prerogative and attacked the oecumenical pretensions of the papacy with great freedom of language.

It is neither that of the city, nor that of the country alone—neither national, oecumenical, nor provincial, nor a mixture of all.

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