œcumenist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] Movement is treated fully in the second section and under the heading of Documents the Catholic œcumenist position is made clear."
- "We have already seen how a Catholic œcumenist sets about establishing a contact with the present-day living tradition of the Orthodox Church; together with that he will try to restore in the Catholic Church the ancient currents of religious life from which this living tradition derives."
- "But it has the great disadvantage that the Roman Catholic œcumenists do not see the œcumenical movement as a whole and do not appreciate sufficiently that in the World Council matters of Faith and Order are discussed in the framework of a wider œcumenical process."
- "The very first one, by Heinrich W. Ludolf, a German from Erfurt and an œcumenist, was published in Latin at Oxford in 1696; it was a sensitive and astonishingly advanced description by a polyglot (with a missionary purpose in mind) of what was then a dialectus vulgaris, not suitable for any literary purpose excepting the law code."