communicant
Americannoun
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a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.
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a person who communicates.
adjective
noun
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Christianity a person who receives Communion
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a person who communicates or informs
adjective
Other Word Forms
- postcommunicant adjective
Etymology
Origin of communicant
1545–55; < Latin commūnicant- (stem of commūnicāns ), equivalent to commūnic ( āre ) to share with ( communicate ) + -ant- -ant
Example Sentences
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He took to Corbett’s plain-spoken approach that Rogers called “bare-knuckle theology” and has been a daily communicant since.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
“How we receive, while very personal to the individual communicant, is not crucial,” said Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., who ordered his priests to place the Communion wafer on the recipient's hand.
From Fox News • Mar. 5, 2020
She herself is a daily communicant and says the Rosary constantly for the Pope’s intentions, but nothing seems to help.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
“Frank was described by his friends and the people that knew him as a quiet, ambitious boy of good habits and a communicant of St. Mary’s Church in Elgin,” Thiel said.
From Washington Times • May 4, 2016
Out on my arse jobless and a mother to support that’s ninety-two and a daily communicant in the Franciscan church.The rent man collects the rents, missus, or he loses the job.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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