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pre-conciliar

pre-conciliar is the alternative form of preconciliar.

Meaning of preconciliar

Adjective

preconciliar

  1. In or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
    • Whether the patriarchal Churches then owed their uniqueness ultimately to their civil position or to their ecclesiastical traditions will be a question to which Chalcedon gives no answer, or rather gives two inconsistent ones. We are thrown back for the solution of the problem on Nicaea and its...1912, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Studies in Early Church History: Collected Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52
    Antonyms:
    postconciliar

Adjective capitalized: pre-Conciliar

pre-Conciliar

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of preconciliar.

Origin of pre-conciliar

From pre- + conciliar.

Questions about pre-conciliar

What is pre-conciliar the alternative form of?
Pre-conciliar is the alternative form of preconciliar.
What part of speech is pre-conciliar?
Pre-conciliar is an adjective.

Words near pre-conciliar in the dictionary

  1. pre-colonial
  2. pre-Columbian
  3. pre-combat
  4. pre-combustion
  5. pre-competition
  6. pre-conciliar
  7. pre-condition
  8. pre-conditional
  9. pre-conditions
  10. pre-conference
  11. pre-consonantal

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