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Agreement about being put forward for election taking only some people in?
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denominational
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Word definitions for denominational in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denominational \De*nom`i*na"tion*al\, a. Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. ``Denominational differences.'' --Buckle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination; "denominational politics" adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice" [syn: partisan ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a denomination
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1838; see denomination + -al (1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN school ▪ Since the 1830s, these schools , and other denominational schools, had received government grants. ▪ If the practice of subsidising denominational schools is regrettable, in Northern Ireland it is catastrophic. ...
Usage examples of denominational.
For in the last day, when we shall all appear before Him whose ways are not as our ways, or his thoughts as our thoughts - in that day, the question will not be, whether the compulsory system, or the denominational system, or any other system, satisfied best our sectarian ways and our narrow thoughts: but whether they satisfied the ways of that Father in heaven who willeth not that one little child should perish.
The line dividing these two great classes zigzags its way through the religious community, sometimes following denominational layers and cleavages, sometimes going, like a geological fracture, through many different strata.
You might think it'd be easier if you Came In with 0 in the way of denominational background or preconceptions, you might think it'd be easier to sort of invent a Higher-Powerish God from scratch and then like erect an understanding, but Don Gately complains that this has not been his experience thus far.
But it was odd that a member of the medical profession, which had taken an increasingly agnostic public posture throughout the last few decades, should choose religious art of any kind for his office walls, let alone such obvious denominational art that might offend non-Catholics or nonbelievers.