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confessionalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables
con-fes-sion-al-ism
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree English confession English -al English confessional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English confessionalism From confessional + -ism.

Usage

Inflected Forms

confessionalisms (plural)

Questions

What does confessionalism mean?
A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
Where does confessionalism come from?
Etymology tree English confession English -al English confessional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English confessionalism From confessional + -ism.

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