ordinariate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
name
The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.
Example Sentences
- "Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4)."
- "[…] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]"
- "But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability."
Inflected Forms
ordinariates (plural)
the Ordinariate (canonical)