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unecclesiastical

unecclesiastical adjective: not ecclesiastical.

Adjective

unecclesiastical (comparative more unecclesiastical, superlative most unecclesiastical)

  1. Not ecclesiastical.
    • There is some rumour that he is or has been a clergyman; but one or two incidents of his short residence at the Hall struck me as peculiarly unecclesiastical.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Forms of unecclesiastical

comparativemore unecclesiastical
superlativemost unecclesiastical

Origin of unecclesiastical

From un- + ecclesiastical.

Questions about unecclesiastical

What does unecclesiastical mean?
Unecclesiastical means not ecclesiastical.
What part of speech is unecclesiastical?
Unecclesiastical is an adjective.

Words near unecclesiastical in the dictionary

  1. unebbed
  2. unebbing
  3. unebriate
  4. uneccentric
  5. uneccentrically
  6. unecclesiastical
  7. unechoed
  8. unechoing
  9. UNECLAC
  10. uneclectic
  11. uneclipsable

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