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Catholicity

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
catholic/ˈkaθlɪk/

▶adjective

1 including a wide variety of things.

2 (Catholic) of the Roman Catholic faith.
■ of or including all Christians.

■ relating to the historic doctrine and practice of the Western Church.

▶noun (Catholic) a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

– derivatives
Catholicism noun,
catholicity noun,
Catholicize (or Catholicise) verb,
catholicly adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. catholique or late L. catholicus, from Gk katholikos ‘universal’, from kata ‘in respect of’ + holos ‘whole’.

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