tradcath
/ˈtrædˌkæθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Catholic who seeks to change the practices of Catholicism back to the norms of before the Second Vatican Council.
adj
Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to traditionalist, conservative Catholicism.
Example Sentences
- "Chesterton was Edwardian England's most eloquent advocate for distributism, a Catholic social and economic system that contemporary TradCaths embrace, more (skepticism of big-government socialism) or less (actually distributing anything to anyone)."
- "Overlapping with groups within the ‘Manosphere’, tradcaths use fundamentalist Christianity as a vehicle to spread and legitimize their gospel of traditional family values […]"
- "This group is comprised of networks—such as Catholic identifying Groypers and TradCaths […]"
- "She [Brittany Hugoboom] was raised Catholic by parents who often moved around the country because of her father’s job in banking, and said she became a “tradcath,” a trendy term for Traditionalist Catholic, around a decade ago."
- "But there are not enough ‘TradCath’ priests to serve all the parishes who want us, leaving churches and people vulnerable to takeover by ‘Affirming’ clergy or pastoral reorganisation into liberal teams."
- "In fact, the TradCath Weirdo is so obsessed with fecundity and nonprocreating marriages that he represents the only type of contemporary white person that actively hates dogs."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
- British English: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/