Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

old catholic

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.52 in modern English

Syllables: old -catholic
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to a group of churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church over the dogma of papal infallibility, which they did not agree with.

noun

A member of an Old Catholic church.

Inflected Forms

Old Catholics (plural)

Synonyms

Christian Catholic

Questions

What does old catholic mean?: Pertaining to a group of churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church over the dogma of papal infallibility, which they did not agree with.

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