œcumenist

comparative more œcumenist · superlative most œcumenist

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ecumenist.

   […] Movement is treated fully in the second section and under the heading of Documents the Catholic œcumenist position is made clear.

   1969, The Eastern churches quarterly, volume 7, page 114

plural œcumenists

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ecumenist.

   But it has the great disadvantage that the Roman Catholic œcumenists do not see the œcumenical movement as a whole and do not appreciate sufficiently that in the World Council matters of Faith and Order are discussed in the framework of a wider œcumenical process.

   1969, The Eastern churches quarterly, volume 11, page 317

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   We have already seen how a Catholic œcumenist sets about establishing a contact with the present-day living tradition of the Orthodox Church; together with that he will try to restore in the Catholic Church the ancient currents of religious life from which this living tradition derives.

   1969, The Eastern churches quarterly, volume 7, page 95

   The very first one, by Heinrich W. Ludolf, a German from Erfurt and an œcumenist, was published in Latin at Oxford in 1696; it was a sensitive and astonishingly advanced description by a polyglot (with a missionary purpose in mind) of what was then a dialectus vulgaris, not suitable for any literary purpose excepting the law code.

   2000, Gennady Barabtarlo, Cold fusion: aspects of the German cultural presence in Russia, pages 2–3 (Berghahn Books; ISBN 978‒1‒57181‒188‒2)