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conventicles

conventicles is the plural of conventicle.

Meaning of conventicle

Noun

conventicle (plural conventicles)

  1. A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
    • [I]f when Luther firſt began to teach new doctrine, the catholiks at that time had not vouchſafed to giue him the hering, but had auoided his prechings & preuy couenticles, ther had not bin now in the worlde, either Lutheran, Swinglian, Calueniſt, Puritan, Anabaptiſt, Trinetarie, Family of loue...1581, D. Fulke [i.e., William Fulke], A Briefe Confutation, of a Popish Discourse: […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for George Byshop, →OCLC, folio 12, recto and verso
  2. The place where such a meeting is held.
  3. A Quaker meetinghouse.

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Questions about conventicles

What is conventicles the plural of?
Conventicles is the plural of conventicle.

Words near conventicles in the dictionary

  1. conventical
  2. conventicle
  3. conventicled
  4. conventicler
  5. conventiclers
  6. conventicles
  7. conventicling
  8. conventicular
  9. conventiculum
  10. conventing
  11. convention

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