ecumenical
/ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.kəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
Example Sentences
- "[William] Wake’s immense correspondence on behalf of Christian unity has been analysed fully, if not definitively, by Norman Sykes, and related to the situations in France, Switzerland, and Germany, but we may adventure a comment upon it without recapitulating an intricate, and like ecumenical narratives generally, often tedious, story."
- "Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances."
- "Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical’."
- "Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.kəl/
- British English: /ˌiːk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.kəl/