单词 | reunitive |
释义 | reunitiveadj. Of, characterized by, or involving reunion; that reunites. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adjective] conjunctive1694 confederal1782 confederativec1819 reunitive1851 federal1878 consortial1881 federative1885 1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) I. xiv. 148 Noon-time of a Sunday in a New England country town used to be..a social and reunitive epoch of no small interest. 1959 M. E. Marty Short Hist. Christianity 339 The men of the ecumenical spirit have learned that the reunitive goal is marked by the highest denominator: oneness in Christ. 1972 Encycl. Americana XVII. 867/1 Lutheranism..often felt itself to be most responsible for the breach in Western Christendom and most poised for reunitive conversations. 1998 W. K. Mahony Artful Universe vi. 229 Religion is literally a reunitive process. It is that means by which the broken world becomes whole again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1851 |
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