Uniate

See also: uniate

English

Etymology

See Uniat.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.nɪ.ət/
  • (General American) enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt', yo͞oʹnē-āt'; IPA(key): /ˈju.niˌɪt/, /ˈju.niˌeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt, -eɪt
  • Hyphenation: Uni‧ate

Adjective

Uniate (not comparable) (sometimes pejorative)

  1. Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Uniate.
  2. Of or pertaining to Uniates
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Uniate.

Noun

Uniate (plural Uniates) (sometimes pejorative)

  1. A member of a Uniate Church
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Uniate.

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References

  • Uniate” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  • Bowker, John (2000), Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN:'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
  • Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670:'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”
  • Uniate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • "Uniate" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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