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Catholicism

noun
/kəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm//kəˈθɔləsɪzm/

Etymology

Compare French catholicisme.

  1. derived from catholicisme

Definitions

  1. The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic…

    The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.

    • Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims

  2. The state or quality of being catholic or universal

    The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.

    • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery this broken consent is not an infallible testimony of the catholicism of the doctrine

  3. Liberality of sentiment

    Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Catholicism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at catholicism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at catholicism

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA