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oecumenicism

oecumenicism is the alternative form of ecumenicism.

Meaning of ecumenicism

Noun

ecumenicism (usually uncountable, plural ecumenicisms)

  1. (usually) Synonym of ecumenism.
    • He [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] corresponded so heavily that scholars are still sorting through his unpublished papers. In his philosophy he practised an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven. Leibniz seems never to have met a philosopher or a theologian he...2010, Neal Stephenson, “Atoms of cognition: metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715–2010”, in Bill Bryson, editor, Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, Mariner Books, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    ecumenism

Questions about oecumenicism

What is oecumenicism the alternative form of?
Oecumenicism is the alternative form of ecumenicism.

Words near oecumenicism in the dictionary

  1. oecumenic
  2. oecumenical
  3. oecumenical council
  4. oecumenical councils
  5. oecumenicalism
  6. oecumenicism
  7. oecumenicity
  8. oecus
  9. Oecusse
  10. Oecussi
  11. OED

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