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Tridentine

American  
[trahy-den-tin, -tahyn, -teen] / traɪˈdɛn tɪn, -taɪn, -tin /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the city of Trent.

  2. of or relating to the Council of Trent.

  3. conforming to the decrees and doctrines of the Council of Trent.


Tridentine British  
/ traɪˈdɛntaɪn /

adjective

  1. history

    1. of or relating to the Council of Trent

    2. in accord with Tridentine doctrine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an orthodox Roman Catholic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Tridentine

1555–65; < Medieval Latin Tridentīnus, adj. use of Latin Tridentīnus area of the Rhaetian Alps around Tridentum; see -ine 1

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In 1999, O'Connor was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2023

By the fall of 2010, the panel was returned to the Tridentine Diocesan Museum in Trento, Italy.

From Washington Post Mar. 29, 2022

He intensified those restrictions last weekend with a new set of rules that forbids even the publication of Tridentine Mass times in parish bulletins.

From Seattle Times Dec. 23, 2021

The 16th-century Tridentine Mass was replaced after the Second Vatican Council with a new standard version approved in 1970.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2021

From his grave he rules the Council, and the Tridentine Decrees are the acknowledgment of his unseen sovereignty.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)

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