ecumenicity

American  

[ek-yoo-muh-nis-i-tee, -me-, ee-kyoo-] / ˌɛk yʊ məˈnɪs ɪ ti, -mɛ-, ˈi kyʊ- /

noun

1. (in the Christian church) the state of being ecumenically united, especially in furthering the aims of the ecumenical movement.

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Etymology

Origin of ecumenicity

First recorded in 1830–40; ecumenic ( def. ) + -ity

Example Sentences

In this century the ideal of unity, of ecumenicity, has strongly reappeared.

From Time Magazine Archive

The organized ecumenical movement seems to be on the back burner and ecumenicity is now taking place where Roman Catholics and Protestants share beliefs in matters like the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until 150 years later, and then only under compulsion of the emperor Justinian, did Rome acknowledge the ecumenicity of the council, and that merely as regarded its doctrinal decrees.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

But the ecumenicity of the council was generally acknowledged by 680.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

The representative assembly of any other body of Christians, however widely ramified, must seem insignificant when contrasted with the real ecumenicity of the Vatican Council.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey