Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of UniateFirst known use 19th c.
temporal advantages were held out to the Uniat Greeks: no change was at first enforced
1850, John M. Neale, A History of the Holy Eastern Church, volume 1, London [u.a.]: Masters, →OCLC, page 561 more example
The Greek Uniat Archbishop at Polotzki Johannes Krasszofsky has sent 1970 rubles in bank assignments
1818, [From the two Burjat Nobles to their Prince], “Russia”, in Report - British and Foreign Bible Society, volume 15, London: Bible House, →OCLC, page 192
plural Uniats
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Uniate.
They are worse than the Uniats: they never look into the church of God
1926, “A terrible revenge”, in Constance Garnett, transl., edited by Rudy Panko, Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (The collected works of Nickolay Gogol), New York: A. A. Knopf, translation of Страшная месть [Strašnaja mestʹ] by Nikolai Gogol, →OCLCSynonyms: Eastern Catholic
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Origin
- Latinūniō“union”
- Polishuniat“one having the characteristics of union”
- Russianуниат“a united Greek”
- EnglishUniat
19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) + -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).
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Uniat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Uniat
“Uniat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Uniat. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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