Word.ws English Dictionary

ecumenically

ecumenically adverb: in an ecumenical manner; from or by the Christian religion.

Adverb

ecumenically (comparative more ecumenically, superlative most ecumenically)

  1. In an ecumenical manner; from or by the Christian religion.
    • In the fact that phallic worship has, for so many generations, been looked upon as something to be hidden; in the fact that it received ecclesiastical condemnation where there was no downright denial of its existence; in the taboo so continuously and ecumenically imposed upon its expression; and in...1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page vii
  2. Regarding ecumenism.

Forms of ecumenically

comparativemore ecumenically
superlativemost ecumenically

Origin of ecumenically

From ecumenical + -ly.

Questions about ecumenically

What does ecumenically mean?
Ecumenically means in an ecumenical manner; from or by the Christian religion.
What part of speech is ecumenically?
Ecumenically is an adverb.

Words near ecumenically in the dictionary

  1. ecumenical movement
  2. Ecumenical Patriarch
  3. Ecumenical Patriarchs
  4. ecumenicalism
  5. ecumenicality
  6. ecumenically
  7. ecumenicism
  8. ecumenicisms
  9. ecumenicist
  10. ecumenicists
  11. ecumenicities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ecumenically (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ecumenically.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ecumenically. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.