extraordinary form
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Extraordinary Form.
Example Sentences
- "As noted above, communities adhering to the extraordinary form follow the calendar in force in 1962."
- "But what about the Extraordinary Form? How is the Traditional liturgy enriched by the New Mass?"
- "It needs to be admitted that Benedict XVI, in his letter to bishops accompanying the motu proprio, also noted something not asserted in prior documents, namely, that many young people are attracted to the Extraordinary Form and should not be denied its celebration."
Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin forma extraordinaria, coined by Benedict XVI in 2007 in Summorum pontificum, which referred to the Tridentine Mass as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.
Inflected Forms
the Extraordinary Form (canonical)