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nondenominational

nondenominational \nondenominational\ adj. not restricted to a particular religious denomination; as, a nondenominational school.

nondenominational

nonsectarian \nonsectarian\ adj. not restricted to one sect or school or party; as, religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere; public funding is restricted to nonsectarian colleges. Opposite of sectarian. [Narrower terms: ecumenic, oecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical; interchurch, interdenominational; nondenominational; {undenominational, unsectarian ]

Wiktionary
nondenominational

a. 1 Lacking a denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect. 2 Something that does not classify people by race, religion or sexuality. 3 Something that does not classify people by gender. alt. 1 Lacking a denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect. 2 Something that does not classify people by race, religion or sexuality. 3 Something that does not classify people by gender.

WordNet
nondenominational

adj. not restricted to a particular religious denomination; "a nondenominational church"

Usage examples of "nondenominational".

She said her church was nondenominational, but she was sure sounding like a Baptist.

Hoping for a chance to play, Chris was dismayed to learn that at the close of what was called the nondenominational service all the boys had to divide into their own religious groups, Lutheran with Lutheran, Anglican with Anglican, Presbyterian with Presbyterian, for further worship.

Celebrant in a civil ceremony held in a restored nondenominational church set in beautiful gardens by the river.

Their reward for enduring a considerable wait would be chipped bowls full of a perpetually simmering, nondenominational stew: cabbage hunks, runted spuds, and bitter carrots mixed with tough cubes of jerked meat, beans, and random corn kernels.

Each floor was one big room, the nondenominational Office: a three-dimensional grid bounded below by a plane of thin nylon carpet, two meters above by a parallel plane of pale acoustical tile.

If no member of that clergy is available, a police appointed nondenominational minister will be provided.

First Acolyte Ben Loman bowed his head in the proper nondenominational prayer.

All were nondenominational facilities with burial plots available for purchase.

The tall carved wooden doors to the nondenominational chapel were standing open.

He went to the Little K, the miniature nondenominational Kremlin that could be rented, at great expense, for weddings, funerals, baptisms, festivals of the arts, or just about any other function desired, including an occasional orgy.

A committee has already chosen a good nondenominational bride so my asking the questions will be a fake.

Sitting in the big, hugely padded, preferably tasteless, nondenominational chair -- something worse than a La-Z-Boy, but on that model -- with her feet up on the pop-out footrest, her head back against the leather headrest, canted to one side to look around the partially closed newspaper at him, sitting eight feet away in a blond wood school chair, the same chair he was sitting in now, she would tell him what she found amusing, tell him what she thought about the world.

She attended a nondenominational Christian church, but her mother would have preferred she remain Catholic.

Behind them lay the citadel, the food crop fields, the dwellings, the nondenominational chapel, the service and entertainment center.