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illocal

illocal adjective: not confined to a particular place.

Adjective

illocal (not comparable)

  1. Not confined to a particular place.
    • The ideal of the local is realized in the illocal Church, and we must understand it before we can really measure the dream of the newborn faith with the proud creations of the historical religion. […] In the earlier Pauline Epistles the actual Christians fill the foreground; but the later ^([sic])...1893, Andrew Martin Fairbairn, The Place of Christ in Modern Theology, page 522

Words formed from illocal

Questions about illocal

What does illocal mean?
Illocal means not confined to a particular place.
What part of speech is illocal?
Illocal is an adjective.

Words near illocal in the dictionary

  1. illness anxiety disorders
  2. illnesses
  3. illnesslike
  4. illo
  5. illocable
  6. illocal
  7. illocality
  8. illocally
  9. illocute
  10. illocuted
  11. illocutes

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