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inculture

inculture verb: to adapt Christian teachings to suit a non-Christian culture.

Verb

inculture (third-person singular simple present incultures, present participle inculturing, simple past and past participle incultured)

  1. To adapt Christian teachings to suit a non-Christian culture.

Noun

inculture (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
    • Certainly, the Inculture of the world would perish it into a wilderness1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Forms of inculture

third-person singular presentincultures
present participleinculturing
past participleincultured
pastincultured

Origin of inculture

From in- (“not”) + culture: compare French inculture.

Questions about inculture

What does inculture mean?
Inculture means to adapt Christian teachings to suit a non-Christian culture.
What part of speech is inculture?
Inculture can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of inculture?
The past tense of inculture is incultured.

Words near inculture in the dictionary

  1. inculturated
  2. inculturates
  3. inculturating
  4. inculturation
  5. inculturations
  6. inculture
  7. incultured
  8. incultures
  9. inculturing
  10. incumbence
  11. incumbences

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